Chaworth Brabazon, 6th Earl of Meath PC (I) ( 1686 – 14 May 1763), styled Lord Brabazon from 1707 to 1715, was an

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peer. The eldest surviving son of

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and Juliana Chaworth, he sat for Dublin County from 1713 to 1714 before being called up to the

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as Baron Ardee. In the following year, he succeeded his father as

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. He was governor of County Dublin and County Wicklow, and was appointed to the

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in 1716. As Earl, Chaworth presided over the building of the Earl of Meath's townhouse, 'Ardee House', in the Coombe in 1719, and which stood for over 200 years before being demolished in 1943. On 11 December 1731, he married Juliana (d. 12 December 1758), daughter of

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and Penelope Cadogan. They had no children; when he died at

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in 1763, he was succeeded by his brother

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