Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris FRS (7 August 1744 – 4 July 1816) was an Irish peer. He was the son of

Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey ( – 14 February 1761), known as The Lord Altham between 1727 and 1737, was an Irish peer and governor of Wexford. He is known for the doubts surrounding his claim to the barony of Altham, for the question ...

, and

Juliana Donovan, Countess of Anglesey Juliana Donovan, Countess of Anglesey (died 26 February 1777), was the second or third wife, and later the widow, of the notorious Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey, and mother of his son and heir Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris. Mu ...

, who belonged to the junior

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of the

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s of Clan Loughlin, the Donovans of Ballymore in

County Wexford County Wexford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was ba ...

. She was initially rumoured to be of lower birth, the ancient pedigrees of some Irish families not being widely known in the English-speaking world at that time, and hers deriving from a remote region of Ireland, the

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. Countess Juliana was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Donel Oge na Cartan O'Donovan, the 1st Lord of Clan Loughlin to hold his territories from the Crown, from 1616 (see

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). He succeeded to the title of 6th

Baron Altham Baron Altham, of Altham in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1681 for the Honourable Altham Annesley, younger son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey and Elizabeth Altham, daughter and co-heiress of ...

, of Altham, in County Cork, and to the title of 8th

Viscount Valentia Viscount Valentia is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It has been created twice. The first creation came in 1621 for Henry Power. A year later, his kinsman Sir Francis Annesley, 1st Baronet, was given a "reversionary grant" of the viscountcy, ...

upon his father's death on 14 February 1761. On 22 April 1771, the

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decided that his claim to his father's English titles was not valid, and that therefore these titles had become extinct on his father's death in 1761. He was created 1st Earl of Mountnorris

reland Adriaan Reland (also known as ''Adriaen Reeland/Reelant'', ''Hadrianus Relandus''; 17 July 1676 – 5 February 1718)John Gorton, ''A General Biographical Dictionary'', 1838, Whittaker & Co. was a Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philo ...

on 3 December 1793.

Family

He married firstly Lucy Lyttelton, daughter of

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, (17 January 1709 – 22 August 1773), known between 1751 and 1756 as Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet, was a British Politician, statesman. As an author himself, he was also a supporter of other writers a ...

of Frankley, and Lucy Fortescue, on 10 May 1767. They had, among other children: *

George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris FRS (4 December 1770 – 23 July 1844), styled Viscount Valentia between 1793 and 1816, was a British peer and politician. Background Mountnorris was the son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris, ...

(2 November 1769 – 23 July 1844) *Lady Juliana Lucy Annesley (1772 – 10 October 1833), eldest daughter and fourth child, married John Maxwell (later Maxwell-Barry, 5th Baron Farnham) in 1789, and had no issue. He next married Hon. Sarah Cavendish, daughter of

Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet Privy Council of Ireland, PC (29 September 1732 – 3 August 1804) was an Anglo-Irish politician noted for his extensive recording of parliamentary debates in the late 1760s and early 1770s. Early life Cavendish ...

, and

Sarah Cavendish, 1st Baroness Waterpark Sarah Cavendish, 1st Baroness Waterpark (''née'' Bradshaw; 1 August 1740 – 4 August 1807), was an Anglo-Irish peeress. Early life Sarah was born on 1 August 1740. She was the only daughter, and heiress, of Richard Bradshaw and his wife Debo ...

, on 20 December 1783. They had, among other children: * Lady Frances Wedderburn-Webster (1793–1837), married

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, and had issue. She was notorious for her supposed love affairs with famous men such as

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and the

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, even if these may only have been flirtations. *Lady Catherine Annesley (18 July 1793 – 25 June 1865), married Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset, eighth son of

Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803) was an English courtier and politician. He was styled the Marquess of Worcester from 1745 until 1756, when he succeeded his father as 5th Duke of Beaufort (England), ...

, and had one child, Sir Alfred Somerset.

References

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