Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes, 5th Baronet (20 January 1722 – 22 June 1790) was an

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politician. He was the oldest son of

Sir Walter Borrowes, 4th Baronet Sir Walter Dixon Borrowes, 4th Baronet (1691 – 9 June 1741) was an Irish politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Dixon, daughter of Sir Richard Dixon and his wife Mary Eustace of Calverstown ...

and his wife Mary Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger. In 1741, Borrowes succeeded his father as baronet. Between 1745 and 1776, he represented

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in the

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. Borrowes was also elected for

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in 1760, but chose not to sit. In 1751, he was appointed

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. The main Borrowes family seat was at

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near

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. They also inherited an estate at

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in Kildare from their Dixon cousins (Kildare was the grandson of the Dixon heiress, Elizabeth).

Marriages and children

In February 1759, Borrowes married Elizabeth Short, only daughter of John Short. After her death in 1766, he married secondly Jane Higginson, daughter of Joseph Higginson on 10 May 1769. He had three sons and a daughter by his first wife, as well as four sons and two daughters by his second wife. Borrowes was buried at Gilltown and was succeeded in the

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by his oldest son Erasmus.

References

1730 births 1790 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 High Sheriffs of Kildare Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kildare constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Antrim constituencies {{Ireland-baronet-stub