Edward Brabazon, 4th Earl of Meath (c. 1638 – 22 February 1707) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...

politician, peer and soldier. Brabazon was the son of Edward Brabazon, 2nd Earl of Meath and Mary Chambré. He was a captain in a regiment of foot in 1661. Between June and August 1666 he was briefly a Member of Parliament for

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606 in Ireland, 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the Provinces ...

in the

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. In 1675 he was appointed Ranger of all the Royal Parks in Ireland and in 1679 he was made a member of the

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. He succeeded to his brother's title as

Earl of Meath Earl of Meath is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1627 and is held by the head of the Brabazon family. History The Brabazon family descends from Sir Edward Brabazon, who represented County Wicklow in the Irish House of Com ...

in 1684. In 1685, Brabazon was appointed Custos Rotulorum of County Dublin and

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. Following the

Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1688, was the deposition of James II and VII, James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II, Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange ...

, he supported

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and became a colonel of a regiment of foot in his army in Ireland in 1689. The same year, he was attainted ''in absentia'' by James II's

Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ...

in Dublin.Simms, J.G. ''The Jacobite parliament of 1689'' (The Dublin Historical Association, Dundalk, 1966). He fought in the

Siege of Carrickfergus The siege of Carrickfergus took place in August 1689 when a force of Williamite troops under Marshal Schomberg landed and laid siege to the Jacobite garrison of Carrickfergus in Ireland. After a week the Jacobites surrendered, and were allo ...

Battle of the Boyne The Battle of the Boyne ( ) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Sc ...

and the Siege of Limerick, where he was wounded. In 1690 was reaffirmed as a Privy Counsellor. Brabazon was Governor of the Company of the Royal Fishery of Ireland 1692 and a Commissioner of the

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in 1693, 1697 and 1702. He married twice, but died without issue and was succeeded in his title by his younger brother, Chambré Brabazon.

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