Viscount

Castlecomer Castlecomer (Irish: ''Caislean an Chumai'' meaning "the castle at the confluence of the waters") is a town in the north of County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is positioned at the meeting of N78 and R694 roads about north of Kilkenny city. At the ...

was a title created on 15 March 1707, along with the title Baron Wandesford, for Christopher Wandesford, 1st Viscount Castlecomer, whose father, Sir Christopher Wandesford, had been created

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Kirklington, North Yorkshire Kirklington is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire close to the A1(M) motorway. Kirklington forms the major part of the civil parish of Kirklington-cum-Upsland which is in the district of Hambleton. The population of the pari ...

on 5 August 1662 in the

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. The 5th Viscount was created Earl Wandesford on 15 August 1758. All three titles and the baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1784.

Baronets of Kirklington (1662)

Sir Christopher Wandesford, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(1628–1687) * Sir Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Baronet (1656–1707) (created Viscount Castlecomer in 1707)

Viscounts Castlecomer (1707)

Christopher Wandesford, 1st Viscount Castlecomer Christopher Wandesford, 1st Viscount Castlecomer (19 August 1656 – 15 September 1707) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Wandesford was the son and heir of Sir Christopher Wandesford, 1st Baronet of Kirklington, Yorkshire, by his wife Ele ...

(1656–1707) *

Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer (2 March 1684 – 23 June 1719) was an Irish politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland in 1707 and in the British House of Commons between 1710 and 1719. Wandesford was the son of Christoph ...

(1684–1719) *

Christopher Wandesford, 3rd Viscount Castlecomer Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

(1717–1736)Buried on 10 May 1736 at St James's, Westminster, London. Source: ''The Register of Burials in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster. 1723-1754''. 10 May 1736. *

George Wandesford, 4th Viscount Castlecomer George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President ...

(1687–1751) * John Wandesford, 5th Viscount Castlecomer (1725–1784) (created Earl Wandesford in 1758)

Earls Wandesford (1758)

John Wandesford, 1st Earl Wandesford John Wandesford, 1st Earl Wandesford (24 May 1725 – 12 January 1784) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Wandesford was the son of George Wandesford, 4th Viscount Castlecomer and Susannah Griffith, daughter of Reverend John Griffith and Susannah Cross, an ...

(1725–1784)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Castlecomer Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland Noble titles created in 1707