Chambré Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath PC (I) (c. 1645 – 1 April 1715), styled Hon. Chambré Brabazon from 1652 to 1707, was an Irish nobleman and politician.

Education and offices

He was the third son of Edward Brabazon, 2nd Earl of Meath and Mary Chambré, daughter of Caclcot Chambré MP of Banbury,

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and Carnowe,

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, and his first wife Mary Villiers. He was admitted to Trinity College Dublin, on 10 October 1667."Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)

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Earl of Meath Earl of Meath is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1627 and held by the head of the Brabazon family. This family descends from Sir Edward Brabazon, who represented County Wicklow in the Irish House of Commons and served as High Sheri ...

in 1707 and took his seat on 8 August 1709 in the Irish House of Lords. Meath was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Dublin in the same year, and named to the

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in 1710.

Family

In 1682, he married Juliana Chaworth (d. 12 November 1692), only daughter of

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and Grace Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland. They had seven children: * Lady Mary Brabazon (1683–1738), buried in

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. * Lady Juliana Brabazon (1684–1692). * Lady Catharine Brabazon (1686–1742), married Thomas Hallowes of Bolsover and had issue. *

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(1687–1763). * Lady Frances Brabazon (1688–1751), married Maj-Gen. Hon. Henry Ponsonby (d. 1745, at the

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) and had issue. * Hon. Chambré Brabazon (died young, 1691) *

Edward Brabazon, 7th Earl of Meath Edward Brabazon, 7th Earl of Meath (c. 1691 – 24 November 1772) was an Anglo-Irish peer. The second surviving son of Chambré Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath and Juliana Chaworth, he sat for Dublin County from 1715, when his elder brother was cal ...

(1691–1772) He died in Nottingham and was buried in

on 2 April 1715.

References

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