James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon,
KP (12 September 1850 – 18 May 1924), was a
British
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Deputy Lieutenant in
Ireland
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and
Representative Peer
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. Lord Bandon was a cousin of the
Earl of Midleton, who was head of the southern
Irish Unionist Alliance
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at the time of the
Anglo-Irish War
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, 1919–21.
Estate
He reorganised his various
County Cork
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estates by way of settlement in 1876 and further in 1895 and 1896 including the mortgaging of the lands to his agents Richard Wheeler Doherty, and the appointment of George and John Jones and Doherty as his attorneys. He was appointed
High Sheriff of County Cork
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for 1875.
IRA hostilities
The family seat, Castle Bernard, near
Bandon, County Cork
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, was one of the great houses
burned during the
Anglo-Irish War
The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...
in the early 1920s by the
Irish Republican Army
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under
Sean Hales
Seán Hales (30 March 1880 – 7 December 1922) was an Irish political activist and member of Dáil Éireann from May 1921 to December 1922.
Biography
Hales was born in Ballinadee, Bandon, County Cork as John Hales, one of nine children of R ...
on 21 June 1921. The home was burned as a counter-reprisal measure against British policy of burning the homes of suspected Irish republicans.
Lord Bandon was
kidnap
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ped and held hostage for three weeks being released on 12 July.
The IRA threatened to have him executed if the British went ahead with executing IRA prisoners. During his captivity, Bandon reportedly coolly played cards with his captors, who seem to have treated him fairly well. Reportedly, Lord Bandon would give one of his captors, Daniel (Dan) O'Leary (also known an ''Leabhair'', Irish for 'Book', based on the fact he was so well read), money each day for Leabhair to travel from the house in Kilcolman townland, to Slatterys pub in Ahiohill to purchase Clonakilty Wrastler (a local beer).
See also
*
List of kidnappings
The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each individual case, including instances of celebrity abductions, claimed hoaxes, suspected kidnappings, extradition abductions, and mass kidnappings.
Before 1900
1900–1949
...
*
List of solved missing person cases
Lists of solved missing person cases include:
* List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000
* List of solved missing person cases: post-2000
See also
* List of kidnappings
* List of murder convictions without a body
* List of people who dis ...
References
''Registry of Deeds'',
Dublin
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, 1876, 1895 and 1896
Bandon Historical Journal no 12 (1996)
References
1850 births
1920s missing person cases
1924 deaths
Earls of Bandon
Formerly missing people
High Sheriffs of County Cork
Irish representative peers
Kidnapped British people
Kidnapped politicians
Knights of St Patrick
Lord-Lieutenants of Cork
People of the Irish War of Independence
Politicians from County Cork
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