Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford PC (Ire) (ca. 163223 December 1700) was an English politician, who sat in the

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from 1660 to 1679. He was an administrator in Ireland. Aungier was the eldest son of Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of

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1636-1654, and his wife Grizzell Bulkeley, daughter of

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1619-1650. The Aungier family originated from Cambridgeshire, but his grandfather married into the family of the Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare in 1584, and was appointed

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in 1609, after which he became settled in Ireland. Aungier inherited the Barony on the death of his uncle, Gerald Aungier, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford, in 1655.M.W. Helms/B.D. Henning, 'Aungier, Francis, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford (c.1632-1700), of East Clandon, Surr.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690'' (from Boydell and Brewer, 1983)
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Aungier inherited some property in Surrey, and in 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the Convention Parliament. In 1661 he was appointed governor of Westmeath and Longford. He was elected MP for

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in 1661 and sat until 1679. He was created Viscount Longford in the Peerage of Ireland in 1675 and

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in 1677. In 1689 Longford was one of the few Irish Protestant peers to participate in the Irish Parliament called by James II, but he later became reconciled to William of Orange.''Oxford DNB'' (2004), Aungier, Francis, first earl of Longford. Aungier married firstly Jane Carr, daughter of Sir Edward Carr of Hillingdon and secondly Anne daughter of

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and widow of

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. He had no children and was succeeded by special remainder in his titles by his brother

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, who died in 1705, and with whom the earldom of Longford became extinct.

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