Viscount Newcomen, of Mosstown in the County of Longford, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1803 (as Viscountess Newcomen) for Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, Baroness Newcomen. She had already been made Baroness Newcomen, of Mosstown in the County of Longford, in 1800, also in the Peerage of Ireland. She was the wife of William Gleadowe-Newcomen, who represented

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in both the Irish and British House of Commons. In 1781 he was created a Baronet, of Carrickglass in the County of Longford, in the

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. Lady Newcomen was the only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, of Carrickglass,

, grandson of Sir Robert Newcomen, 6th Baronet, of Kenagh (see

Newcomen Baronets The Newcomen Baronetcy, of Kenagh in the County of Longford, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 30 December 1623 for Robert Newcomen. Born in London, the third son of Charles Newcomen and Jane Nightingale, Robert had come ...

). At the extinction of the Newcomen baronetcy in 1789, the substantial family estates devolved on the future Lady Newcomen. Her husband was born William Gleadowe, but assumed at the time of their marriage the additional surname of Newcomen.''The annual biography and obituary: Volume 2''
/ref> Sir William and Lady Newcomen were both succeeded by their son, the second Baronet and second Viscount. He sat as

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for

in the British House of Commons. The titles became extinct on his death in 1825.

Gleadowe-Newcomen Baronets, of Carrickglass (1781)

* Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet (died 1807) * Sir Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Baronet (1776–1825) (succeeded as Viscount Newcomen in 1817)

Viscounts Newcomen (1803)

Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen Charlotte Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Viscountess Newcomen (died 16 May 1817), née Newcomen, was an Anglo-Irish peeress. She was the only child and heiress of Edward Newcomen, a landowner and relation of the Newcomen baronets. On 17 October 1772 she ...

(died 1817) * Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen (1776–1825)

References

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