John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newtown,

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

(10 July 1793 – 16 April 1871) was an

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and

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. He was the second son of

William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire), Queen's Counsel, QC (1 July 1764 – 5 January 1854) was an Irish politician and lawyer. After gaining public notoriety as the prosecutor in the treason trial of R ...

, and Catherine MacAusland. He succeeded his brother

Thomas Plunket, 2nd Baron Plunket Thomas Span Plunket, 2nd Baron Plunket (1792–1866), was Bishop of Tuam, Killaly and Achonry. Plunket was the first son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket and his wife, Catherine (née McCausland). He was educated at St John's College, Cambr ...

in 1866. He married Charlotte, daughter of the eminent judge

Charles Kendal Bushe Charles Kendal Bushe (1767 – 10 July 1843), was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe" because of his eloquence,Healy, Maurice ''The Old Muster Circuit'' Michael Joseph Ltd. 1939 he was Solicitor-General for Ireland from ...

and his wife Anne (Nancy) Crampton.

Family

Children of John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newton and Charlotte Bushe: * Most Rev. William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket of Newton,

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(26 August 1828 – 1 April 1897) * Hon. Katherine Frances Plunket (d. 25 Aug 1881), who married Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet. * Hon. Charlotte Plunket (d. 30 May 1918), who married Thomas Barton and was the mother of Sir Dunbar Barton, 1st Baronet * Hon. Louisa Plunket, who married Richard Greene (son of

Richard Wilson Greene Richard Wilson Greene PC, KC (1791–1861) was an Irish barrister and judge. He was born in Dublin, the son of Sir Jonas Greene, who was Recorder of Dublin from 1822 until his death in 1828, and his wife, the leading actress Marianne Hitchc ...

) and had issue * David Robert Plunket, 1st and last Baron Rathmore (3 Dec 1838 – 22 Aug 1919) * Hon. Arthur Cecil Crampton Plunket (11 May 1845 – 21 Oct 1884), m. 10 September 1870, Louisa Frances (née Hewitt)

References

"John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newton"
– ''The Peerage'' website {{DEFAULTSORT:Plunket, John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron 1793 births 1871 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Younger sons of barons 19th-century King's Counsel People from County Cork