George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston (9 April 1771 – 18 October 1839), styled Viscount Kingsborough from 1797 to 1799, was an Irish nobleman. He was the son of

Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston (1754 – 17 April 1799) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was styled Viscount Kingsborough between 1768 and 1797. He achieved notoriety in 1798 when tried and acquitted by his peers in the Irish House of Lords for murde ...

Mitchelstown Castle Mitchelstown Castle, the former home of the Anglo Irish Earl of Kingston, Earls of Kingston, was located in the north County Cork town of Mitchelstown in Ireland. History 15th to 18th century ''White Knights, Dark Earls'' is to date the most ...

, who he succeeded in 1799. Mitchelstown Castle

He was returned as a Member of the

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for

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in 1798, vacating the seat in the following year when he succeeded his father to the peerage and briefly taking his seat in the

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before it was abolished in 1800 after the union with Great Britain. He was created Baron Kingston in the

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in 1821, thus giving him and his descendants an automatic seat in the UK

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. In 1823, he demolished the existing Palladian house on the Mitchelstown estate and replaced it with a new castle designed by James and George Richard Pain. It had 60 principal and 20 minor bedrooms, a 100-foot-long (30 m) gallery, three libraries, morning room, dining room (which could seat 100 guests at one sitting) and various other facilities. On 5 May 1794, he married Lady Helena, the daughter of

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. They had six children: *Lady Helena King (11 August 1793 – 20 November 1853), married Philip Davies-Cooke on 8 December 1829 *

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(1795–1837), antiquarian who predeceased his father *

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(1796–1867); his heir *Hon. George King (20 August 1798 – 2 May 1801) * James King, 5th Earl of Kingston (1800–1869) *Lady Adelaide Charlotte King (died August 1854), married Charles Tankerville Webber (died March 1854), son of

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, on 2 August 1834 George King's sister

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married his wife's brother

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kingston, George King, 3rd Earl of 1771 births 1839 deaths Kingsborough, George King, Viscount

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Members of the Irish House of Lords Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Roscommon constituencies Earls of Kingston Peers of the United Kingdom created by George IV