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Crofton Baronets Of The Mote (first Creation, 1661)
The Crofton Baronetcy, of The Mote in County Roscommon, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 1 July 1661 for Edward Crofton, as a reward for his record of loyalty to King Charles II during the English Civil War. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Lanesborough, and served as High Sheriff of Roscommon and High Sheriff of Leitrim. He was succeeded in the title by his son Edward, the second Baronet, who sat in the Irish House of Commons as member first for Boyle, and subsequently for Roscommon, and was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1713–14. He was a prominent opponent of King James II of England, and was attainted by the Patriot Parliament of 1689, but recovered his estates the following year. His eldest son, the third baronet, also represented Roscommon in the House of Commons. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1780. Crofton baronets, of The Mote (1661) * Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet (1624–1675) *Sir Edward Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Roscommon
County Roscommon () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the province of Connacht and the Northern and Western Region. It is the List of Irish counties by area, 11th largest Irish county by area and List of Irish counties by population, 26th most populous. Its county town and largest town is Roscommon. Roscommon County Council is the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority for the county. The population of the county was 69,995 as of the 2022 census. Etymology County Roscommon is named after the county town of Roscommon. Roscommon comes from the Irish ''Ros'' meaning a wooded, gentle height and ''Coman mac Faelchon, Comán'', the first abbot and bishop of Roscommon who founded the first monastery there in 550 AD. Geography County Roscommon has an area of . Lough Key in north Roscommon is noted for having thirty-two islands. The geographical centre of Ireland is located on the western shore of Lough Ree in the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privy Council Of Ireland
His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the institution within the Dublin Castle administration which exercised formal executive power in conjunction with the chief governor of Ireland, who was viceroy of the British monarch. The council evolved in the Lordship of Ireland on the model of the Privy Council of England; as the English council advised the king in person, so the Irish council advised the viceroy, who in medieval times was a powerful Lord Deputy. In the Early Modern Ireland, early modern period the council gained more influence at the expense of the viceroy, but 18th-century Ireland, in the 18th century lost influence to the Parliament of Ireland. In the post-1800 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Irish Privy Council and viceroy Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant had formal and ceremonial power, while policy formulation rested wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Oliver Crofton, 5th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men who are knights and belong to certain orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the ''suo jure'' female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms, or Miss. Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet
Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet (12 April 1713 – 26 March 1745) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Family Crofton was the son of Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet and Mary Nixon. He represented County Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons between 1735 and his death in 1745. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 11 November 1739. He married Martha Damer, daughter of Joseph Damer and Mary Churchill, on 17 June 1741. Education Crofton entered Trinity College Dublin on 19 May 17300. Political career He represented County Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons between 1735 and his death in 1745.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.81 (Retrieved 1 April 2020). Military career He served in the British Army and was killed near Tournai during the War of the Austrian Succession. He died without children and was succeeded by his relation, Oliver. The later Crofton Baronets were descend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet (1687–1739)
Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet (25 May 1687 – 11 November 1739) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Crofton was the son of Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet and Katherine St George, daughter of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for the borough of Roscommon between 1713 and his death in 1739.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.81 (Retrieved 31 March 2020). In 1733, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland. He married Mary Nixon, daughter of Anthony Nixon of Dublin, on 4 March 1711. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 24 November 1729. Upon his death, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward. The later Crofton baronets descended from his daughter Catherine, who married Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet. See also * Crofton Baronets of The Mote (first creation, 1661) References {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, Of The Mote (1661 Creation)
Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet (c.1662 – 24 November 1729) was an Irish landowner and politician, who sat in the Irish House of Commons for more than thirty years, and served briefly as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. Family He was born at Mote Park, near Roscommon town, the only surviving son of Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Susanna Clifford, daughter of Thomas Clifford of Devon. The Crofton family had come to Ireland from England in the sixteenth century and acquired substantial estates in Roscommon. The elder Sir Edward was noted for his loyalty to the Stuart dynasty during the English Civil War, and at the Restoration of Charles II he was rewarded by being created a baronet, the first of the Crofton Baronets. Less is known for certain of Susanna's background, but there is a tradition in the Crofton family that she belonged to a junior branch of the family of Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. Two years after his father's death in 1675 his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriot Parliament
Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May 1689 to 20 July 1689. Irish nationalist historian Sir Charles Gavan Duffy first used the term ''Patriot Parliament'' in 1893. The House of Commons was 70 members short since there were no elections in the northern counties; as a result, its members were overwhelmingly Old English and Catholic. Sir Richard Nagle was elected speaker, while the House of Lords was led by Baron Fitton; the opposition was led by Anthony Dopping, a Church of Ireland cleric who served as the Bishop of Meath. The term is controversial, for this Parliament was deeply divided. The deliberate destruction of its records after 1695 means that assessments, both negative and positive, often rely on individual accounts. Background Despite his Catholicism, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attainted
In English criminal law, attainder was the metaphorical "stain" or "corruption of blood" which arose from being condemned for a serious capital crime (felony or treason). It entailed losing not only one's life, property and hereditary titles, but typically also the right to pass them on to one's heirs. Anyone condemned of capital crimes could be attainted. Attainder by confession resulted from a guilty plea at the bar before judges or before the coroner in sanctuary. Attainder by verdict resulted from conviction by jury. Attainder by process resulted from a legislative act outlawing a fugitive (a bill of attainder). The last form is obsolete in England (and prohibited in the United States), and the other forms have been abolished. Middle Ages and Renaissance Medieval and Renaissance English monarchs used acts of attainder to deprive nobles of their lands and often their lives. Once attainted, the descendants of the noble could no longer inherit their lands or income. Attain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James II Of England
James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II of England, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, his reign is now remembered primarily for conflicts over religion. However, it also involved struggles over the principles of Absolute monarchy, absolutism and divine right of kings, with his deposition ending a century of political and civil strife by confirming the primacy of the English Parliament over the Crown. James was the second surviving son of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France, and was created Duke of York at birth. He succeeded to the throne aged 51 with widespread support. The general public were reluctant to undermine the principle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roscommon County (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
County Roscommon was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Members of Parliament *1585 Sir Richard Bingham and Thomas Dillon *1613–1615 Sir John King (died 1637), John KingGordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (died 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 and Sir Oliver St John *1634–1635 Lucas Dillon of Loughglynn, Sir Lucas Dillon *1639–1649 Lucas Dillon of Loughglynn, Sir Lucas Dillon and Henry (or Geoffrey) Dillon and Robert King (Roundhead), Robert King *1654 (''Protectorate Parliament'') Robert King (Roundhead), Sir Robert King *1657 (''Protectorate Parliament'') James King *1661 April–December Charles Coote, 2nd Earl of Mountrath, Sir Charles Coote (replaced 1662 by George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough, George Lane) and Richard Jones. 1689–1801 Notes References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roscommon County (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency) Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Crofton, 1st Baronet (1624–1675) was an Anglo-Irish Royalist politician. Family Crofton was the son of George Crofton of Ballymurray, County Roscommon and Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of Sir Francis Berkeley and Catherine Loftus, and granddaughter of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh. The Crofton family had come to Ireland in the sixteenth century and settled in County Roscommon. His father sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Askeaton in the Irish Parliament of 1639. At about the same time he began the building of Mote Park House, which Edward inherited, and remained the family seat for generations. Education Crofton entered Trinity College, Dublin on 15 February 1640. Created 1st Baronet On 1 July 1661 he was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland as a reward for his support of Charles II of England during the English Civil War and The Restoration.Barak Longmate''Stockdale's Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland'' Volume 2 (J. Stockdale, 181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyle (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Boyle was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. History In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II of England, James II, Boyle was represented with two members. Members of Parliament, 1614–1801 *1613 John Cusack and Robert Meredith *1634–1635 Robert King (Roundhead), Robert King and Robert Meredyth *1639–1649 Robert King (Roundhead), Robert King (sat for Roscommon. Replaced by Michael Burnell) and Richard Wingfield *1661–1666 Ellis Goodwin and Owen Lloyd (both died 1665 and were replaced by John Burniston and John Stepney) 1689–1801 Notes References Bibliography * * {{coord missing, County Roscommon Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Historic constituencies in County Roscommon 1614 establishments in Ireland 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies established in 1614 Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
