Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet
JP (20 August 1723 – 1811) was an
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...
landowner and businessman who owned Warrenscourt House (which was bought by his grandfather, Wallis Warren, in 1703) and Crookstown House (which he inherited from his father's marriage to Anne Crooke) in County Cork.
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Warren of Warren's Court
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Life
He was the eldest son of Robert Warren, of Warrenscourt House, and Anne Crooke, a descendant of Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, of Baltimore (1574–1630) was an English-born politician, lawyer and landowner in seventeenth-century Ireland. He is chiefly remembered as the founder of the town of Baltimore, County Cork, which he developed into ...
, who founded the town of Baltimore, County Cork.[O'Sullivan, Aidan]
The Warrens of Warrenscourt
Kilmurry Museum.
In 1768 he, Richard Tonson, Sir James St Jeffryes and James Bernard founded Tonson's Bank, later to be called Warren's Bank.[Eoin O’Kelly, The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster, pt.1: bankers of Cork and Limerick cities. (Cork, 1959).] Warren's Bank, which had over £500,000 on its launch in 1768, funded elections and loaned money to contractors in the American War of Independence
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
.Cork
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* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
Places Ireland
* Cork (city)
** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
.[Cullen, Louise. Anglo-Irish Trade, 1660-1800. Page 171. Manchester University Press, 1968.]
In 1750 he was made a Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
for County Cork and in 1752 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork.
Children
He married, firstly, Mary Carré, daughter of Augustus Carre (or Carey), a wealthy merchant of Cork city, in 1748 and with her had issue:[Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003: volume 3, page 4074]
* Sir Augustus Louis Carré Warren, 2nd Baronet (1754-1821).
*William Warren of Lisgoold, County Cork.
*Thomas Warren (MP for Charleville and Castlebar from 1783-1790).
*John Warren of Codrum House, County Cork.
*Rev. Robert Warren of Crookstown House, County Cork.
*Rev. Edward Warren.
*Mary Warren (who married Daniel Gibbs, J.P., Deputy Governor of County Cork). Her daughter Anne Gibbs married Richard Nettles, J.P., of Nettleville House, County Cork., and was, through her daughter Esther Nettles (who married Rev. Hume Babington), a great-grandmother of Sir Anthony Babington
Anthony Babington (24 October 156120 September 1586) was an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quartere ...
, the Attorney General for Northern Ireland from 1925-1937.
*Rose Warren.
*Charlotte Warren.
*Anne Warren.
He married, secondly, Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of John Lawton, in 1780 and with her had issue:Richard Benson Warren
Richard Benson Warren (1784-1848) was an Irish barrister and Law Officer who held the position of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland).Hart p.184
He was born at Warrens Court, near Macroom, County Cork, the seventh son of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet, an ...
, Second Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). One of his daughters, Martha Elinor Warren, married James Robert Stewart, of Gortleitragh House, Dublin, and was the mother of both Robert Warren Stewart and George Francis Stewart.[Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003: volume 2, page 1850.]
*Henry Warren, who married Catherine Stewart. His son was Robert Warren, the politician and judge.
Ancestry
Through his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir George Shurley
Sir George Shurley (1569–1647) was an English-born judge who held the office of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Uniquely among the holders of that office, he ranked as junior in precedence the to Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.Ball, F. ...
, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, he was a direct descendant of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Lady Margaret Butler
Lady Margaret Boleyn (c. 1454 – 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn, was the paternal grandmoth ...
through their daughter Margaret Boleyn, an aunt of Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key ...
. Margaret Boleyn had married John Sackville, whose daughter Anne Sackville, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn, married Sir Nicholas Pelham. One of Sir Nicholas Pelham's daughters with Anne Sackville, Anne Pelham, had married Thomas Shurley and was the mother of Sir George Shirley.[.]
References
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Irish people of English descent
Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
1723 births
1811 deaths