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Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby
Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby (1720 – 20 February 1762) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was the son of Major-General Henry Ponsonby by his wife Lady Frances, daughter of Chambré Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath. His paternal grandfather was William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon and Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough was his uncle. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Newtownards from 1750 to 1761. Personal life On 28 September 1746 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Clarke. They had one daughter, Frances, who married George Lowther of Kilrue on 28 July 1767. He married a second time on 23 October 1752, to Louisa, daughter of Henry Lyons of Belmont. They had one daughter, Sarah Ponsonby, (1755–1831). After Sarah was orphaned by her father's death she was sent to stay with distant relations, Lady Elizabeth "Betty" and Sir William Fownes at the Woodstock Estate near Inistioge, County Kilkenny, where she attended school in Kilkenny. She was dee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ponsonby (died 1745)
Major-General Henry Ponsonby (1685 – 11 May 1745) was a British Army officer and politician. He was the son of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon and brother of Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough. He married his cousin Lady Frances Brabazon, daughter of Chambré Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath, and was father of Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Fethard from 1715 to 1727. In 1727 he was elected for both Clomines and Inistioge, sitting for the latter constituency until his death. He reached the rank of major general and was colonel of a Regiment of Foot, (later the 37th Regiment of Foot), from 1735 to his death. He was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy The Battle of Fontenoy took place on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, then in the Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Maurice, comte de Saxe, Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Ar ... in 1745. References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilkenny Castle
Kilkenny Castle ( ) is a castle in Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, built in 1260 in Ireland, 1260 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol of Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, Norman occupation, and in its original 13th-century condition, it would have formed an important element of the town's defences with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch, part of which can still be seen today on the Parade. In 1967, Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, sold the castle for £50 to the Castle Restoration Committee for the people of Kilkenny. The castle and grounds are now managed by the Office of Public Works, and the gardens and parkland are open to the public. The Parade Tower is a conference venue. Since 2002, ceremonies for conferring awards and degrees on the graduates of the Kilkenny Campus of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, have been held at the castle. History Early history Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Uncertain
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1762 Deaths
Events January–March * January 4 – Seven Years' War: Britain declares war against Spain and Naples, following their recent alliance with France. * January 5 – Empress Elisabeth of Russia dies, and is succeeded by her nephew Peter III. Peter, an admirer of Frederick the Great, immediately opens peace negotiations with the Prussians. *January 16 – British forces under Robert Monckton land on the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean. * February 5 – The Great Holocaust of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, around 30,000 men, women and children perish in this campaign of slaughter. * February 15 – Invasion of Martinique (1762): French forces on Martinique surrender to the British. The island is subsequently returned to France, as part of the Peace of Paris. * March 5 – A Royal Navy fleet with 16,000 men departs Britain from Spithead and sets sail toward Cuba in order to seize stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker
Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker (12 June 1762 – 13 December 1834) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was born Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby, son of Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby by his third wife Mary, daughter of Sir William Barker, 3rd Baronet. He adopted the surname of Barker on inheriting Kilcooly Abbey from his uncle Sir William Barker, 4th Baronet in 1818. His elder half sister, daughter of Louisa, daughter of Henry Lyons of Belmont, his father's second wife, was Sarah Ponsonby, (1755–1831), the younger of the two Ladies of Llangollen. Ponsonby-Barker represented Dungarvan in the Irish House of Commons from 1790 to 1798. He was married on 4 June 1791 to Lady Henrietta Taylour, daughter of Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective. They had three sons and a daughter, Catherine Jane, who married Edward Michael Conolly Edward Michael Conolly (23 August 1786 – 4 January 1849) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was born Edward Michael Pakenham, son of Admiral Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fethard, County Tipperary
Fethard (; ) (archival records) is a small town in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Dating to the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Defensive wall, town's walls were first laid-out in the 13th century, with some sections of these defensive fortifications surviving today. Fethard is located east of Cashel, County Tipperary, Cashel on the ''Clashawley River'' where the R692 road (Ireland), R692, R689 road (Ireland), R689 and R706 road (Ireland), R706 Regional road (Ireland), regional roads intersect. It is a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in the Barony (Ireland), barony of Middle Third (County Tipperary barony), Middle Third and in the ecclesiastical parish of "Fethard and Killusty" in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. , the town's population was 1,738. History Fethard was founded in the early 13th century during the Norman invasion of Ireland. While the low hill, on which the town stands, may have been the location of a pre-Normans, No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barton (Irish MP)
Thomas Barton (26 January 1757 – 1820) of Grove House and Clonmel, County Tipperary, and St Stephen's Green, Dublin, was an Irish landowner and politician. Biography He was born in 1757, the eldest son of William Barton of Fethard, County Tipperary, and his wife, Grace, daughter of Charles Massy, Dean of Limerick, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and THe Middle Temple. His younger brothers included two Generals, Charles Barton and Sir Robert Barton. The Bartons were proprietors of the town of Fethard, and Thomas was elected a Freeman and Burgess of Fethard in 1780 and served as Sovereign (i.e. mayor) from 1787 to 1788, 1791 to 1792, 1801 to 1802 and 1811 to 1814. He also served as Recorder from 1801 to 1809, and represented the borough in the Irish House of Commons from 1783 to 1797. In 1785, he was sheriff of the county. When Fethard was disenfranchised at the Act of Union 1800, the compensation for loss of a pocket borough was divided between Barton and the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilcooly Abbey
Kilcooley Abbey is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gortnahoe in County Tipperary, Ireland. The abbey is located inside the grounds of the Kilcooley Estate. This abbey dates from 1182 when the King of Thomond Donal Mor O’Brien granted lands to the Cistercians, to build an abbey here. The abbey, which was built around 1200 is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St. Benedict and shares similar Cistercian architecture with both Jerpoint Abbey and Holy Cross Abbey. The abbey is open to the public. After the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries, Kilcooley passed into the possession of the Earl of Ormond. It was granted to the English-born judge Sir Jerome Alexander in the 1630s. It passed to his daughter Elizabeth, and then through marriage to the Barker baronets of Bocking Hall, the last of whom died in 1818. Structure The main part of the abbey consists of the entrance chamber, the church, the tower, and the sacristy. The entrance chamber has a carved bapt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Barker, 3rd Baronet
There have been five baronetcies created for persons with the surname Barker, three in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All five creations are extinct. The Barker Baronetcy, of Grimston Hall in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 17 March 1622 for John Barker. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Ipswich. The fifth Baronet represented Ipswich, Thetford and Suffolk in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1766. The Barker Baronetcy, of Hambleton in the County of Rutland, was created in the Baronetage of England on 9 September 1665 for Abel Barker, Member of Parliament for Rutland. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1707. The Barker Baronetcy, of Bocking Hall in the County of Essex, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 March 1676 for William Barker. The title became extinct on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plas Newydd (Llangollen)
Plas Newydd (, ; "new hall" or "new mansion") is a historic house in the town of Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, and was the home of the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, for nearly 50 years. Today, it is run as a museum by Denbighshire County Council. History Plas Newydd is notable as the home where two Irish ladies, Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby (the Ladies of Llangollen) eloped and set up house together in the late 18th century, scandalising contemporary British society. Plas Newydd was originally a five-roomed stone cottage, but over the years it was enlarged to include many Gothic features. Although originally ostracised by their families, the ladies and their unconventional lifestyle gradually became accepted, and their home was visited by many famous people including Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Caroline Lamb and Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood. The ladies also expanded an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llangollen
Llangollen () is a town and community (Wales), community, situated on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales. Its riverside location forms the edge of the Berwyn range, and the Dee Valley section of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with the easternmost point of the Dee Valley Way being within the town. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census the community had a population of 3,603. History Llangollen takes its name from the Welsh ''llan'' meaning "a religious settlement" and Saint Collen, a 7th-century monk who founded a church beside the river. St Collen is said to have arrived in Llangollen by coracle. St Collen’s Church, Llangollen, St Collen’s Church is the only church in Wales dedicated to St Collen, and he may have had connections with Colan, Cornwall, Colan in Cornwall and with Langolen in Brittany. Above the town to the north is Castell Dinas Brân, a stronghold of the Princes of Kingdom of Powys, Powys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Carryl
Mary Carryl (d. 22 November 1809) was an Irish-born loyal servant and friend of the celebrated Ladies of Llangollen. She served them up to her death; and when the Ladies died, they shared the same grave. Early life in Ireland Mary Carryl was brought up in a poor family in Ross in County Wexford. Little is known about her until she was employed by Lady Elizabeth "Betty" and Sir William Fownes, 2nd Baronet, at the Woodstock Estate near Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland. He inherited the baronetcy from his father Sir William Fownes, 1st Baronet, the Mayor of Dublin, and over 21,000 acres from his grandfather. When Fownes married Elizabeth Ponsonby, he had received £4,000 as a dowry and the couple built the six-bayed, three-storey Woodstock House in County Kilkenny in 1745-7. In 1769, the Fownes had a thirteen-year-old guest to stay for some time named Sarah Ponsonby, who was Elizabeth's cousin and the orphaned daughter of Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby. She attended school at Kilke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
