Price Hartstonge (1692–1744) was an

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politician who sat in the

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as MP for

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from 1727–44.

Background

He was born at

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, the second and eldest surviving son of

Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet (c. 1671/1673 – 1751) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician, who sat in the Irish House of Commons for many years. His marriage, which took place when he was only about 18 or 19 years old, caused a ...

and his wife Anne Price, daughter of a local judge. The Hartstonges, originally from Norfolk, had become substantial landowners in Ireland in the seventeenth century. Price's father Standish had been raised by his grandfather

Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet (1627–August 1701Oliver 1973 pp.42, 45) was an English-born lawyer who had a distinguished career as a judge in Ireland, but was twice removed from office. He was also a very substantial landowner in Ireland ...

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in Ireland, who was then living in retirement in

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, but the marriage of Price's parents caused a bitter family feud, and in about 1695 young Standish took his family to live in Ireland. Price was educated at

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and

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Career

Standish had a long and successful career as a member of the Irish House of Commons and Price follows his father into Parliament, sitting for Charleville from 1727. Price died well before his father in February 1744.

Family

Price married Alice Widenham, daughter, and co-heiress with her sister Mary Quin of Henry Widenham (died 1719) of Court Castle,

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. She was a considerable heiress, who brought her husband a dowry of £6000. Her father also left her his lands at Kildimo, which included Court Castle and Dromore Castle. They had at least four children including: *

Sir Henry Hartstonge, 3rd Baronet Sir Henry Hartstonge, 3rd Baronet (c. 1725 – 1797) was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner who sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Limerick County. He was a close political associate of his influential brother-in-law Edmund Per ...

, upon whose death the title became extinct *Mary, who married Henry Ormsby of Cloghan,

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, and was the mother of **Mary Alice Pery (died 1850), who inherited the Hartstonge estates: she married

Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick Edmund Henry Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick PC (8 January 1758 – 7 December 1844), styled Lord Glentworth between 1794 and 1800, and Viscount Limerick until 1803, was an Irish peer and politician. Pery was the son of William Cecil Pery, 1st B ...

, and had eight children.Cokayne p.214 *Anne. Alice's sister Mary Widenham married Valentine Quin of Adare; they were the grandparents of

Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 1st Baronet (30 July 1752 – 24 August 1824) was an Irish Peer and MP. He was the son of Windham Quin and Frances Dawson. The Quins were an old Irish family who had long been associat ...

References

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