Gustavus Hume Rochfort ( – 30 January 1824) was an

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politician. Rochfort was the son of George Rochfort and Alice, daughter of

Sir Gustavus Hume, 3rd Baronet Sir Gustavus Hume, 3rd Baronet, of Castle Hume, (c.1670 – 25 October 1731) was an Irish landowner and politician. Hume was the son of Sir John Hume, 2nd Baronet and Sydney Hamilton, and in 1695 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. He was Hi ...

. He was the

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in 1796 and the

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for

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in the

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from 1798 until the

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. He subsequently represented

Westmeath "Noble above nobility" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = , subdivis ...

in the

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between 1801 and his death in 1824 as a

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.ROCHFORT, Gustavus Hume (c.1750–1824), of Rochfort, co. Westmeath, i
''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820–1832''
ed. D.R. Fisher (2009) (Retrieved 1 November 2022). He was

Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. ...

from 1815 to 1824. Rochfort married Frances Bloomfield in July 1779, with whom he had seven sons and five daughters.

References

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