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Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl Of Milltown
Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown KP (11 February 1799 – 31 January 1866) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Viscount Russborough from 1801 to 1807. He was the son of the Hon. Joseph Leeson, who died shortly after his birth, and Emily Douglas, third daughter of Archibald Douglas and Mary Crosbie. In 1811 his mother remarried Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, and had three further children, including Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry. He became Earl of Milltown in 1807 on the death of his grandfather, Brice Leeson, 3rd Earl of Milltown, and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 13 March 1841. He married Barbara Meredyth, daughter of Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth, 8th Baronet and Maria Nugent, and widow of Eyre Coote, 3rd Baron Castle Coote. They had, as well as two daughters, three sons, Joseph, 5th Earl of Milltown, Edward Leeson, 6th Earl of Milltown Edward Nugent Leeson, 6th Earl of Milltown, KP, PC (I) (9 October 1835 – 30 May 1890), was an An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of St Patrick
The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick is a dormant British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. The Order was created in 1783 by King George III at the request of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, The 3rd Earl Temple (later created Marquess of Buckingham). The regular creation of knights of the Order lasted until 1922, when most of Ireland gained independence as the Irish Free State, a dominion within what was then known as the British Commonwealth of Nations. While the Order technically still exists, no knight of St Patrick has been created since 1936, and the last surviving knight, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, died in 1974. Charles III, however, remains the Sovereign of the Order, and one officer, the Ulster King of Arms (now represented in the office of Norroy and Ulster King of Arms), also survives. St Patrick is patron of the order; its motto is '' Quis separabit?'', Latin for "Who will separate s": an allusion to the Vulgate translation of Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting churches, such as the Methodist church, though some were Roman Catholics. They often defined themselves as simply "British", and less frequently "Anglo-Irish", "Irish" or "English". Many became eminent as administrators in the British Empire and as senior army and naval officers since Kingdom of England and Great Britain were in a real union with the Kingdom of Ireland until 1800, before politically uniting into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) for over a century. The term is not usually applied to Presbyterians in the province of Ulster, whose ancestry is mostly Lowland Scottish, rather than English or Irish, and who are sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry
Valentine Brown Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry (19 August 1773 – 28 October 1853), was an Irish peer, politician and landowner. In the 1790s he was an emissary in radical and reform circles in London for the Society of United Irishmen, and was twice detained on suspicion of sedition. He gained notoriety for his celebrated lawsuit for adultery against his former friend Sir John Piers, who had seduced Cloncurry's first wife, Elizabeth Georgiana Morgan. He took up residence at Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare and, commensurate with his status as an Anglo-Irish lord, appeared to reconcile to the Dublin authorities. Lawless served as a Viceregal advisor and eventually gained a British peerage, but it was not as an Ascendancy loyalist. He pressed the case for admitting Catholics to parliament and for ending the universal imposition of Church of Ireland tithes. Family and education Lawless was born in Merrion Square in Dublin. His father, Nicholas Lawless, son of the Dublin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Of Milltown
Earl of Milltown, in the County of Dublin, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 10 May 1763 for the Irish politician Joseph Leeson, 1st Viscount Russborough. He had already been created Baron Russborough, of Russborough in the County of Wicklow, on 5 May 1756, and Viscount Russborough, of Russellstown in the County of Wicklow, on 8 September 1760, also in the Peerage of Ireland. His eldest son, the second Earl, represented Thomastown in the Irish House of Commons. The sixth Earl was elected an Irish Representative Peer in 1881 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow. The titles became dormant on the death of the seventh Earl in 1891. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to claim the title, in 1891 and in 1905. The title is considered dormant rather than extinct, as it is thought that there may still be living male descendants of the youngest son of the 1st Earl. The family seat, commissioned by the first Earl, was Russborough House in Ireland. Earls of Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brice Leeson, 3rd Earl Of Milltown
Brice Leeson, 3rd Earl of Milltown (20 December 1735 – 10 January 1807) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the second son of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown and Cecilia Leigh. He became Earl of Milltown on the death of his brother, Joseph Leeson, 2nd Earl of Milltown on 27 November 1801. He married (25 October 1765) Maria Graydon (died: 25 July 1772), dau. of John Graydon, of Dublin, by his wife Cassandra Tahourdin, daughter of Gabriel Tahourdin, of Wanstead, co. Essex, a Huguenot refugee from Anjou who became a merchant of the City of London. Gabriel's father, also called Gabriel married Gabrielle Baudouin the sister of René Baudouin, another Huguenot refugee and wealthy Silk Merchant who came from Tours and also became a merchant in the City of London. A memorial to him survives inside the church of St Mary Aldermary, in the City of London, recording the history of his arrival from Tours. Brice Leeson's home was the family's seat Russborough, Blessington, Co. Wicklow. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Castle Coote
Baron Castle Coote, in the County of Roscommon, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Charles Coote, 7th Earl of Mountrath, with remainder to his kinsman Charles Coote. The earldom of Mountrath became extinct on his death in 1802 (see Coote baronets for earlier history of the Coote family) while he was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by the aforementioned Charles Coote, the second Baron, who had previously represented Queen's County and Maryborough in the Irish House of Commons. The second Baron was the son of the Very Reverend Charles Coote, Dean of Kilfenora, great-grandson of Chidley Coote, younger son of Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet and brother of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath. He was succeeded by his only surviving son, Eyre, the third Baron, who died childless in 1827, when the barony became extinct. The second Baron was the nephew of Sir Eyre Coote, the brother of Sir Eyre Coote, the uncle of Eyre Coote, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Leeson, 6th Earl Of Milltown
Edward Nugent Leeson, 6th Earl of Milltown, KP, PC (I) (9 October 1835 – 30 May 1890), was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the second son of Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown and his wife Barbara, dowager Lady Caste Coote, daughter of Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth, 8th Baronet. Life Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1862. On the death of his elder brother Joseph Leeson, 5th Earl of Milltown in 1871, he succeeded to his family's peerage then being elected on 23 August 1881 as an Irish representative peer, allowing him to sit in the House of Lords. Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow from 14 June 1887, in 1889 Lord Milltown became an Honorary Commissioner in lunacy, and was also appointed a Knight of St. Patrick on 7 February 1890, shortly before his death. He married, in 1871, Lady Geraldine Stanhope, daughter of the Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington, but had no issue. On his death, the title passed to his brother Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Leeson, 5th Earl Of Milltown
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 Births
Events January–June * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January 17 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. * January 21 – The Parthenopean Republic is established in Naples by French General Jean Étienne Championnet; King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies flees. * February 9 – Quasi-War: In the single-ship action of USS ''Constellation'' vs ''L'Insurgente'' in the Caribbean, the American ship is the victor. * February 28 – French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Sybille'' defeats the French frigate ''Forte'', off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal, but both captains are killed. * March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President pro tempore of the United States S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine ''The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The '' Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Anglo-Irish People
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Of St Patrick
The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick is a dormant British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. The Order was created in 1783 by King George III at the request of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, The 3rd Earl Temple (later created Marquess of Buckingham). The regular creation of knights of the Order lasted until 1922, when most of Ireland gained independence as the Irish Free State, a dominion within what was then known as the British Commonwealth of Nations. While the Order technically still exists, no knight of St Patrick has been created since 1936, and the last surviving knight, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, died in 1974. Charles III, however, remains the Sovereign of the Order, and one officer, the Ulster King of Arms (now represented in the office of Norroy and Ulster King of Arms), also survives. St Patrick is patron of the order; its motto is '' Quis separabit?'', Latin for "Who will separate s": an allusion to the Vulgate translation of Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
