William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel (22 September 1801 – 4 February 1856), known as Viscount Ennismore from 1827 to 1837, was an

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peer and

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(MP).

Life

Listowel was the eldest son of

Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore Colonel Richard Lysaght Hare, Viscount Ennismore (20 March 1773 – 24 September 1827) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Ennismore was the son of William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel and Mary, only daughter of Henry Wrixon of Ballygiblin. He sat in t ...

, and Catherine Bridget Dillon.

William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel (September 1751 – 13 July 1837), known as Lord Ennismore from 1800 to 1816 and as the Viscount Ennismore and Listowel from 1816 to 1822, was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. Life He was the second son ...

, was his grandfather. He was elected Whig MP for

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in 1826, a seat he held until 1830. He was appointed

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for 1834. In 1837 he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom but as this was an

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it did not entitle him to a seat in the

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. During

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's Whig ministry he served as Vice-Admiral of

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and was made a

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in 1839. Listowel instead returned to the

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in 1841 when he was elected Whig MP for

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, a constituency he represented until 1846. In latter part of his career he served the Whig government of Lord John Russell in the House of Lords as a Lord-in-Waiting to HM Queen Victoria, in which office he continued under Peelite Lord Aberdeen. Lord Listowel married Maria Augusta Windham, daughter of Vice-Admiral

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, on 23 July 1831. He died in February 1856, aged 54, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son

William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel KP JP (29 May 1833 – 5 June 1924), styled Viscount Ennismore from 1837 to 1856, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Liberal politician. Background Listowel was the eldest son of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listo ...

. Lady Listowel died in 1871.Burke's (1999), p.1735 *Augusta Maria (1832-1881) married 4th Earl of Carysfort *William, 3rd Earl of Listowel (1833-1924) *Emily Catherine (1834-1916) married Sir John Wrixon-Becher *Sophia Eliza (1835-1912) *Richard, Rear-Admiral (1836–1903) *Ralph, Major RHA (1838–1879) *Hugh Henry, Lt Bengal SC (1839–1927) married Georgiana Caroline, third daughter of Colonel Birnie Browne, Bengal Artillery. *Victoria Alexandrina (1840-1927) married 3rd Earl of Yarborough, and secondly, John M Richardson of Edmundthorpe Hall. *Edward Charles (1842-4) *Adela Maria (1845-1912), twin of Eleanor Cecilia, married Colonel Cuthbert Larking (d.1910) of 15th Hussars *Eleanor Cecilia (1845-1924), twin of Adela Maria, married 1st Baron Heneage, PC (d.1922)

Notes

;Bibliography *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (eds.) ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' London and New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, (106th edition, 1999), vol.1, p. 1735 *Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, (107th edition, 2003), vol.2, p. 2365

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