Viscount Avonmore is a title in the

Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisi ...

created on 29 December 1800 for the former

Attorney-General for Ireland The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then (from the Act of Union 1800) United Kingdom government office-holder. He was senior in rank to the Solicitor-General for Ireland: both advised the Crown on Irish legal matters. With the ...

and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for Ireland, Barry Yelverton, 1st Baron Yelverton. He had been created Baron Yelverton on 15 June 1795. The 4th Viscount fought numerous legal battles to prove that his first purported marriage to Theresa Longworth was illegal. Since the death of the 6th Viscount in 1910, both titles have been dormant. According to Cracroft’s Peerage, heirs-male may exist in Australia

Viscounts Avonmore (1800)

Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, PC (Ire) KC (28 May 1736 – 19 August 1805), was an Irish judge and politician, who gave his name to Yelverton's Act 1782, which effectively repealed Poynings' Law and thus restored the independence of t ...

(1736–1805) * William Charles Yelverton, 2nd Viscount Avonmore (1762–1814) * Barry John Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore (1790–1870) * William Charles Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore (1824–1883) * Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (1859–1885) * Algernon William Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (1866–1910) (dormant)

Viscounts Avonmore (1800)

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