Sir Redmond Everard, 4th Baronet (1689 – 13 April 1742) was an Irish Jacobite

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and politician. He was the youngest son of Sir John Everard, 3rd Baronet, whose family effectively owned the town of Fethard in

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. Redmond himself was elected sovereign of Fethard in 1707 under its charter. His mother was the Hon. Eleanor Butler, eldest daughter of Thomas Cahir, 6th

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and Elizabeth Matthew. His father was killed at the

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in 1691 and his estates forfeited as a

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. After his mother's death shortly afterwards he was brought up by his

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relatives, Lady Mary Butler and her husband,

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, and conformed to the Protestant faith, although his family had been

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for generations. Thanks to the Devonshire influence he was able to recover the lands forfeited on his father's death in 1691. In 1721 he married Mary Drake, only daughter of Montague Drake of

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, Buckinghamshire, and Jane Garrard, daughter of

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. They had no children. He sat in the

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as a

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(MP) for Kilkenny City from 1711 to 1713, and for

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from 1713 to 1715. Although he took the Oath of Supremacy to qualify for his seat in Parliament, his loyalty to the

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was suspect, and with good reason: nicknamed "the little

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", he became a familiar figure in Jacobite

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. After the failure of the

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, he felt it wise to retire to France, where he settled near

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; he never returned to Ireland. His status as an

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caused him considerable financial difficulties, and he eventually sold much of his estate to a Mr. Barton, of the famous

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wine merchant family.O'Hart ''Irish Pedigrees'' In June 1723, the claimant King James III & VIII ennobled Everard as Viscount Everard in the Jacobite Peerage. He died in France on 13 April 1742, without heirs: he left his property to his widow Mary for her lifetime, and after her death to James Long, a distant cousin, who belonged to another branch of the Everard family. His titles became extinct on his death.

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1689 births 1742 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tipperary constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Irish emigrants to France Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Viscounts in the Jacobite peerage Politicians from County Tipperary {{Ireland-baronet-stub