William Henry Hare Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry (10 November 1801 – 15 January 1884) was an

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peer. He was the second son of

Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry (6 August 1767 – 2 May 1851) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. White was born in a gentry family in Ireland. He was the son and heir of Simon White of Bantry by his wife Frances Jane Hedges, daughter of Ri ...

and Lady Margaret Anne Hare. In 1840 he took the additional surname of Hedges after inheriting the estates of his great-uncle, Robert Hedges Eyre. He served as

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in 1848. He succeeded his elder brother as

Earl of Bantry Earl of Bantry, of Bantry in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1816 for Richard White, 1st Viscount Bantry, who had helped repelling the French invasion at Bantry Bay in 1797. He had already been crea ...

following his death in 1868. On 6 July 1869 Lord Bantry was elected as an Irish

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and took his seat in the

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. On 16 Apr 1845 he married Jane Herbert, and together they had six children. His daughter Olivia Charlotte married Arthur Guinness. He died in 1884 and was succeeded by his only son, William Hedges-White.

Children

* Lady Elizabeth Mary Gore Hedges-White (1847– 1880) * Emily Anne Hedges-White, (d.1860) * Lady Olivia Charlotte Hedges-White, (1850– 1925). * Lady Ina Maude Hedges-White, (1852– 1907) * William Henry Hare Hedges-White, 4th and Last Earl of Bantry * Lady Jane Frances Anna Hedges-White, (1857– 1946)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bantry, William Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of 1801 births 1884 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Earls in the Peerage of Ireland High Sheriffs of County Cork Irish representative peers