George Ponsonby O'Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore (16 March 1815 – 29 October 1898) was an Irish peer and

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officer.

Biography

He was the third and only surviving son of Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore and Lady Eleanor Butler, daughter of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde. He commissioned into the

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and served with the regiment in the

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. He held the office of High Sheriff of Tipperary in 1853. On 30 May 1857 he succeeded to his father's titles and assumed his seat in the

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. He also succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Tipperary and held the position until 1885. He married Mary Norbury, daughter of George Norbury of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, on 25 July 1839, and together they had two sons: * George O'Callaghan (1846-1885) who married Rosina Williams in

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, India, but died without issue. * William O'Callaghan (1852-1877) who served as MP for Tipperary. He died unmarried and without issue. Both sons predeceased Lord Lismore, leaving no heir, and his titles became extinct upon his death. The Lismores had a home in Ireland at

Shanbally Castle Shanbally Castle was located near Clogheen, County Tipperary, Clogheen, County Tipperary and built for Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore in around 1810. It was the largest house built in Ireland by the noted English architect John Nash (a ...

and also in

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. They lived at 34 Grosvenor Street from 1863-1867, then at 31 Old Burlington Street from 1867 until the death of Lady Lismore in 1900. Lord Lismore had reportedly made it known that, following the deaths of his two sons, his first-cousin once-removed Lord Arthur Butler would be the heir to the Lismore Estates. However following his death, his will revealed that he had instead named the daughter's of Lord Arthur's older brother

James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde James Edward William Theobald Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde, (5 October 1844 – 26 October 1919), styled Earl of Ossory until 1854, was a Conservative Peer, Irish landowner, Yachtsman and member of the Butler dynasty. Early Life James But ...

Lady Beatrice Butler and Lady Constance Butler as the beneficiaries of his estates.

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