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Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney (30 November 1770 – 8 April 1834), was an

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peer. He ruled the Blayney estate at Castleblayney,

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, for fifty years from 1784 to 1834. As commanding officer of the 89th Regiment of Foot, "Blayney's Bloodhounds" as they were called, he fought with distinction in the

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. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Fuengirola, when making a raid from Gibraltar into Spain against a small group of Polish soldiers a tenth his number, and was kept prisoner for four years by the French government. His

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is currently on exhibition in the Czartoryski Museum, in

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. He wrote a two-volume account of his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars - ''Narrative of a Forced Journey through Spain and France as a Prisoner of War in the Years 1810 to 1814, by Major-General Lord Blayney (London, 1814)''. He was captured by one of the O'Callaghans of Cullaville, a colonel in the French army and a prominent United Irishman who escaped after 1798. It is said he insisted on Blayney being held to ransom for some of the

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who were in British prisons. During Blayney's long incarceration, the 2nd Earl of Caledon looked after his financial, domestic, and political affairs, and on his return, Blayney was given a seat in parliament for Caledon's infamous "

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" of

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, Wiltshire. Lord Blayney died on 8 April 1834 and was succeeded by his son Cadwallader, the 12th and last lord.

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The Blayney of Castleblayney Papers - Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

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