Clotworthy Skeffington, 1st Earl of Massereene PC (I) (1715 – 14 September 1757) was an

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peer. Massereene was the son of

Clotworthy Skeffington, 4th Viscount Massereene Clotworthy Skeffington, 4th Viscount Massereene (died 11 February 1738) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. He was the son of Clotworthy Skeffington, 3rd Viscount Massereene and Rachel Hungerford. He served in the Irish House of Commons as th ...

and Lady Catherine Chichester, daughter of

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. He succeeded to his father's title in 1738 and assumed his seat in the

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. He was made a Member of the

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in 1746, and on 28 July 1756 he was created Earl of Massereene in the

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. He died suddenly just over a year later. Massereene married firstly Anne Daniel on 16 March 1738; however, she died two years later. He married secondly Anne Eyre (granddaughter of

Sir Willoughby Hickman, 3rd Baronet Sir Willoughby Hickman, 3rd Baronet (1659–1720) of Gainsborough Old Hall, Lincolnshire was a British landowner and politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1685 and 1706 and in the British House of Commons from 1713 to 1720. ...

) on 25 November 1741, and together they had six children. On his death he was succeeded by his eldest son, also named Clotworthy Skeffington.John Lodge, Mervyn Archdal
''The Peerage Of Ireland''
Volume 2 (Moore, 1789), p.388.

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