Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (29 September 1782 – 6 August 1850) was an Irish Peer.

Origin

He was the eldest son of

Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 1st Baronet (30 July 1752 – 24 August 1824) was an Irish Peer and MP. He was the son of Windham Quin and Frances Dawson. The Quins were an old Irish family who had long been associat ...

and Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, daughter of

Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester PC (12 September 1704 – 26 September 1776) was a British peer and Member of Parliament. Origins Fox was the eldest surviving son of Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716), the first Paymaster of the Forces, ...

, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Horner. He had one sister, Lady Harriet Quin, who married

Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet General Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet (1759 – 16 April 1831) was a British soldier and Governor of the Leeward Islands. He was the youngest son of Ralph Payne by his second spouse Margaret née Gallwey, of St. Kitts, West Indies. He ...

and died in 1845. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1822 until he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1824. He took the additional surname of Wyndham, becoming Windham Wyndham-Quin, on 7 April 1815.

Life

He was appointed

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for life in 1818. He served as an MP for

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in the

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from 1806 to 1820. He was accused of

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following the 1818

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, but after a full inquiry, the

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exonerated him.

Marriage and children

On 27 December 1810, he married Caroline, daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle,

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and

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, Gloucestershire. They had the following children: *

Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP PC (19 May 1812 – 6 October 1871) was an Irish peer, Member of Parliament, and archaeologist. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850. The son of Windham Quin, 2 ...

(1812–1871) * Captain the Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham Quin (2 November 1829 – 1865), who on 24 January 1856 married Caroline, third daughter of Rear Admiral George Tyler, K.H., of Cottrell, Glamorgan, M.P., and had issue. * Lady Anna Maria Charlotte Wyndham Quinn (November 1814 – 7 January 1855), who married

William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, PC (21 September 1812 – 20 April 1894) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Liberal politician. He held a number of ministerial positions between 1852 and 1873, notably as President of the Board of Health in 185 ...

on 11 August 1836.

References

* Lodge, Edmund,

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, &c., ''The Peerage of the British Empire & Baronetage'', 27th edition, London, 1858, p. 203–4. * *

External links

* 1782 births 1850 deaths Adare, Windham Quin, Lord Quin, Windham Henry Quin, Windham Henry Adare, Windham Quin, Lord Adare, Windham Quin, Lord Dunraven and Mount-Earl, E2 Place of birth missing Irish representative peers Earls of Dunraven and Mount-Earl {{Ireland-earl-stub