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Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne
Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne (December 1703 – 10 June 1772), was an Irish peer and politician. He was the only son of David Creighton of Crom Castle and Catherine Southwell, daughter of Richard Southwell. He married Elizabeth Rogerson, eldest daughter of John Rogerson, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and Elizabeth Ludlow. They had four surviving children, two sons and two daughters. Erne was a major landowner in County Fermanagh, and also had banking interests. He represented Lifford in the Irish House of Commons from 1727 until 1768, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Erne, of Crom Castle in the County of Fermanagh. He died in June 1772 and was succeeded in the barony by his son John, who was later created Earl Erne. Up to 1729, Alexander Montgomery shared the parliamentary patronage of Lifford, County Donegal, with the Creighton family, the Earls of Erne. There is an agreement in the Erne papers (held in the Northern Ireland Public Records Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hamilton (politician)
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Members Of The Parliament Of Ireland (pre-1801) For County Donegal Constituencies
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Irish MPs 1761–1768
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Peers Of Ireland Created By George III
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Barons In The Peerage Of Ireland
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1772 Deaths
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1703 Births
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Baron Erne
An erne is a sea eagle, or an eagle more broadly. Erne may refer to: People * Adam Erne (born 1995), American ice hockey player * Philippe Erne (born 1986), Liechtenstein footballer * Young Erne (1884–1944), American boxer Ships * HMS ''Erne'', various ships of Britain's Royal Navy * ''Erne'' (ship), a 1886 British (later Canadian) ship that transported Indian labourers Other * Erne, a type of shot in the game of Pickleball * Erne Integrated College, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland * Earl Erne, a title in the peerage of Ireland * Lough Erne, two connected lakes in Ireland * River Erne, a river in Ireland * (National Solidarity of ''Ertzainas'', known as ErNE) a workers union of the Ertzaintza (police of the Basque Country) See also * Ern (other) * Ernes, a commune in France *Shannon–Erne Waterway The Shannon–Erne Waterway () is a canal linking the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland with the River Erne in Northern Ireland. Managed by Waterways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Creighton (died 1809)
Abraham Creighton may refer to: * Abraham Creighton (died 1706), MP for County Fermanagh and Enniskillen * Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne (1703–1772) * Abraham Creighton (died 1809), MP for Lifford Lifford (, historically anglicised as ''Liffer'') is the county town of County Donegal, Ireland, the administrative centre of the county and the seat of Donegal County Council, although the town of Letterkenny is often mistaken as holding this ... * Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne (1765–1842) {{Human name disambiguation, Creighton, Abraham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
