Baron Nugent of Riverston, in

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, is a title of the Jacobite peerage in the

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of complex status. The title was created on 3 April 1689 by James II after his deposition from the throne for Thomas Nugent,

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, in order for Nugent to attend the 1689

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. The title creation was recorded in the Irish Patent Roll. Nugent was subsequently outlawed as a Jacobite by

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, but benefitted from the terms of the

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and recovered his landed property, when he continued to be referred to as ''Lord Nugent of Riverston''. The title was claimed by the first baron's descendants who styled themselves Barons Nugent of Riverston, but without legal recognition. In July 1839, William Thomas Nugent presented his claim to the

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Privileges Committee, but they adjourned the issue, declaring it ''

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''. In 1851, the claim to the title was inherited by

Anthony Francis Nugent, 9th Earl of Westmeath Anthony Francis Nugent, 9th Earl of Westmeath, (1 November 1805 – 12 May 1879) was an Irish peer. Nugent was a descendant of Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath, but the title had been carried by a different line of the Nugents, with his own ...

, from which point it merged with the Earldom of Westmeath.Nugent, Thomas
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Barons Nugent of Riverston (Jacobite Peerage, 1689)

* Thomas Nugent, 1st Baron Nugent of Riverston (died 1715) *''

Hyacinth Richard Nugent, 2nd Baron Nugent of Riverston Hyacinth Richard Nugent, 2nd Baron Nugent of Riverston, born after 1684, died 5 March 1738. Early life Nugent was a native of Pallas in east County Galway, an estate that his great-grandfather, Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath, had acquired ...

'' (died 1738) (Claimant) *''

William Nugent, 3rd Baron Nugent of Riverston William Nugent, 3rd Baron Nugent of Riverston (died 1756) was a grandson of Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath (died 1641) via his son Thomas Nugent, 1st Baron Nugent of Riverston, (died 1715). He resided at Pallas, in east County Galway. He m ...

'' (died 1756) (Claimant) *'' Anthony Nugent, 4th Baron Nugent of Riverston'' (1730–1814) (Claimant) *''

William Thomas Nugent, 5th Baron Nugent of Riverston William Thomas Nugent, 5th Baron Nugent of Riverston (29 September 1773 – 6 September 1851). A descendant of Richard Nugent, 2nd Earl of Westmeath (died 1641) and a son of Anthony Nugent, 4th Baron Nugent of Riverston (1730-1814), Nugent s ...

'' (1773–1851) (Claimant) *'' Anthony Francis Nugent, 6th Baron Nugent of Riverston'' (1805–1879) (Claimant) :Succeeded as

Earl of Westmeath Earl of Westmeath is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1621 for Richard Nugent, Baron Delvin. During the Tudor era the loyalty of the Nugent family was often in question, and Richard's father, the sixth Baron, died in prison ...

in 1871. See this title for further claimants.

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