Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile (1 October 1818 – 26 August 1887) was an

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peer. Doneraile was the son of

Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile (9 May 1786 – 27 March 1854) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Doneraile was the son of Hayes St Leger, 2nd Viscount Doneraile and Charlotte Bernard. He served as an officer in the South Cork Militia, eventual ...

and Lady Charlotte Esther Bernard. He married Mary Ann Grace Louisa Lenox-Conyngham, the daughter of George Lenox-Conyngham and

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, on 20 August 1851. Together they had two daughters and a son, although only his daughter Emily Ursula Clare St Leger survived to adulthood. He sat in the British

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as an Irish

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between 1855 and 1887, having succeeded to his father's title in 1854. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant and gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the 9th Battalion,

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. Doneraile was one of the great huntsmen of his day and he kept a pet fox, which became rabid and bit its master. Lord Doneraile contracted rabies and died when he was smothered with pillows by the housemaids to spare him suffering and prevent him from spreading the disease to others.

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