Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina (6 May 1798 – 18 November 1872) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

peer. He was the son of Nathaniel Massey, 2nd Baron Clarina and Penelope Westropp, and he succeeded to his father's title as

Baron Clarina Baron Clarina, of Elm in the County of Limerick, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 27 December 1800 for General Eyre Massey. The third Baron sat in the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer between 1849 and 1872. Th ...

in January 1810. Clarina was educated at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

and graduated on 20 February 1819. In 1849, Clarina was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the

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as a Conservative.'Baron Clarina'
''Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland''
(Bosworth, 1865), p.95. Clarina was the builder of Elm Park near

Limerick Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...

; the house was demolished in 1965. He married Susan Elizabeth Barton, daughter of Hugh Barton and Anne Johnston, on 9 September 1828, and they had eight children. Clarina was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Eyre. His fifth son was

William Massey-Mainwaring The Honourable William Frederick Barton Massey-Mainwaring (28 May 1845 – 12 March 1907) was an Irish art collector and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. The fifth son of Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina and his wife Susan Eli ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarina, Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron 1798 births 1872 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers