William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy (1675 – 10 January 1728), was an Anglo-Irish peer. William Stewart was born in 1675, the son of Sir William Stewart, later 1st Viscount Mountjoy. His father was a leader of the Irish Protestants during the early stages of the

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, and had commanded the

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detachment in Derry in 1689. He was later killed at the

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. He married on 23 November 1696 Anne Boyle, the daughter of

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. They had five sons and four daughters. He was given command of a regiment of foot and was made successively a brigadier-general, a major-general and a lieutenant-general. In 1714 he was made

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, colonel of a regiment of dragoons and soon after one of the Keepers of the Great Seal. On his death on 10 January 1728, his title passed to his son Sir William Stewart, 3rd Viscount Mountjoy, later (1745)

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