Brice Leeson, 3rd Earl of Milltown (20 December 1735 – 10 January 1807) was an Irish peer. He was the second son of

Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown (11 March 1701 – 2 October 1783) was an Irish peer and politician. Background He was the son of Joseph Leeson, a brewer in Dublin, and Mary Brice, daughter of Alderman Andrew Brice, Sheriff of Dublin. ...

and Cecilia Leigh. He became

Earl of Milltown Earl of Milltown, in the County Dublin, 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 Earl of Milltown, Joseph Leeson, 1st Viscount Russborough. He had already be ...

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

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, by his wife Cassandra Tahourdin, daughter of Gabriel Tahourdin, of

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, co. Essex, a

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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

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, in the City of London, recording the history of his arrival from Tours. Brice Leeson's home was the family's seat Russborough,

Blessington Blessington, historically known as Ballycomeen (, from the Irish surname ''Ó Coimín''), is a town on the River Liffey in County Wicklow, Ireland, near the border with County Kildare. It is around 25 km south-west of Dublin, and is situat ...

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. He was succeeded by his grandson

Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown Joseph Leeson, 4th Earl of Milltown KP (11 February 1799 – 31 January 1866) was an 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 ...

, son of Brice's eldest son Joseph Leeson who died in 1800. His widow Maria died in Dublin in 1842 at the age of 100.The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 171
(page 341)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Milltown, Brice Leeson, 3rd Earl Of 1735 births 1807 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Earls of Milltown