Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet (died October 1695) was an Irish

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Biography

Oliver St George was the son of Sir George St George of

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and Katherine Gifford, and grandson of

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, Clarenceux King of Arms, In February 1658 he was knighted by

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, Lord Deputy of Ireland cites (this honour passed into oblivion with the

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in May 1660). In January 1659 Lord Montgomery, Sir Oliver and others took control of

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and made Jones and two of his colleagues prisoners. They set up a Council of Officers assumed the government of Ireland, and summoned a Convention of Estates (or Convention Parliament). The Convention accepted Charles's

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and proclaimed him King of Ireland. After the Restoration St George was knighted by Charles II in Whitehall on 11 July 1660, and was appointed a Commissioner of Irish Affairs. Later the same year on 5 September he was created a Baronet, of Carrickdrumrusk in the county of Leitrim, in the

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. King Charles II also made him a member of the

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. From 1691 to his death he held the post of

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. Between 1692 and 1693 Sir Oliver represented

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in the Irish House of Commons. He died in October 1695.

Family

St George married, before 1652, Olivia, widow of George Thornton and daughter of Michael Beresford of

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and Mary, daughter of John Leak, by whom he had four children. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son George St George, who was later created

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. Another son,

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, was also appointed to the Irish Privy Council. cites He also had two daughters, Olivia and Katherine. Olivia married firstly after 1693, as his fourth wife, the prominent landowner and statesman Sir Robert Colville of Newtown House,

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, who died in 1697, secondly

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, who died in 1711, and thirdly a Mr. Wroth, or Booth of Epsom,

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. She died in 1724. Katherine married Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, by whom she had two sons, and died c.1689/90.

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