Hugh Montgomery, 4th Earl of Mount Alexander (c. 1680 – 27 February 1745), styled Viscount Montgomery between 1717 and 1731, was an Irish landowner and politician. Montgomery was the son of Henry Montgomery, 3rd Earl of Mount Alexander, by the Honourable Mary St Lawrence, daughter of

William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth William St Lawrence, 12th Baron Howth (1628–1671) was an Irish nobleman of the Restoration period. He was an intelligent and popular man who would undoubtedly have played an influential role in Irish politics had it not been for his premature de ...

.www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk Mount Alexander, Earl of (I, 1661 - 1757)
He was returned to the

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for Antrim in 1703, a seat he held until 1713. He entered the

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on the death of his father in 1731. Lord Mount Alexander married Elinor Barnewall, daughter of

Sir Patrick Barnewall, 3rd Baronet Sir Patrick Barnewall, 3rd Baronet (c.1630 – after 1695) was an Irish Jacobite politician and baronet. Barnewall was the son of Sir Richard Barnewall, 2nd Baronet and Julia Lettice Aylmer, and on 6 July 1679 he succeeded to his father's baronetc ...

, of Crickstown, in 1703. He died in February 1745 and was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother, Thomas. The Countess of Mount Alexander died in December 1746.

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