Sir Walter Dixon Borrowes, 4th Baronet (1691 – 9 June 1741) was an

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politician. He was the eldest son of

Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660 – May 1709) was an Irish politician. He was the son of Sir Walter Borrowes, 2nd Baronet and his first wife Lady Eleanor FitzGerald, daughter of George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare and Lady Joan ...

and his wife Elizabeth Dixon, daughter of Sir Richard Dixon and his wife Mary Eustace of Calverstown. He was educated at

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. In 1709, he succeeded his father as baronet. Borrowes represented Harristown in the

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between 1721 and 1727. Subsequently, he sat for

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until his death in 1741. On 18 March 1720, Borrowes married Mary Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger. They had three sons. Borrowes died at

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, which had come to his mother as the heiress of her nephew, Robert Dixon, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Bt. The family's surname is sometimes spelt Burrowes.

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1691 births 1741 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kildare constituencies Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-baronet-stub