Clotworthy John Eyre Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene (9 October 1842 – 26 June 1905) was an

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peer. He was the son of John Skeffington, 10th Viscount Massereene and Olivia Grady. He inherited his father's titles in the

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in 1863. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Louth between 13 November 1879 and March 1898. He served in the Antrim Militia Artillery at

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, which had been commanded by his father, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant himself on 20 November 1872.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. He married Florence Elizabeth Whyte-Melville, daughter of

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on 4 October 1870. He was succeeded in his titles by his second son, Algernon Skeffington, as his eldest son, Oriel, had died in April 1905.

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