Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore PC (I) (2 October 1775 – 30 May 1857) was an Irish Whig politician.

Biography

He was the son of Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Baron Lismore and Frances Ponsonby. He succeeded to his father's title on 12 July 1797 and assumed his seat in the

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.''Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland''
Volume 2 (1825), p.1068 (Retrieved 1 June 2016). On 30 May 1806 he was created Viscount Lismore in the

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. From 1806 to 1807 he sat in the

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as a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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, a

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in Cornwall controlled by Lord Mount Edgcumbe. In 1835 he was made a Member of the

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. In 1838 he was made Baron Lismore in the

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, giving him and his descendants an automatic seat in the British

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. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary between 20 October 1851 and his death in 1857. He married Lady Eleanor Butler, daughter of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde and Lady Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford, on 11 August 1808. They divorced in 1826. He was succeeded in his title by his third and only surviving son, George O'Callaghan. The 1st Viscount of Lismores son

Cornelius O'Callaghan (1809–1849) Cornelius O'Callaghan (1809 – 16 August 1849) of Shanbally Castle, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary, was an Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) f ...

who pre-deceased him, served as MP for Tipperary and Dungarvan in the House of Commons.

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