Clotworthy John Eyre Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene (9 October 1842 – 26 June 1905) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the son of

John Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene John Foster-Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene KP (30 November 1812 – 28 April 1863) was an Irish peer and poet. He was the son of Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard and his wife, Harriet Skeffington, 9th Viscountess Massereene. He inh ...

and Olivia Grady. He inherited his father's titles in the

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in 1863. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Louth between 13 November 1879 and March 1898. He served in the Antrim Militia Artillery at

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, which had been commanded by his father, and was promoted to

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Commandant himself on 20 November 1872.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. He married Florence Elizabeth Whyte-Melville on 4 October 1870. He was succeeded in his titles by his second son, Algernon Skeffington, as his eldest son, Oriel, had died in April 1905.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Massereene, Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount 1842 births 1905 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Lord-Lieutenants of Louth Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland