Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath (30 January 1854 – 22 March 1931), was an Irish

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Early life

Dunleath was the second son of

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and the former Frances Louisa Lyle (d. 1909). His older brother was

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Andrew Walter Mulholland, who died without issue at age 24 in 1877. His younger siblings included Hon. Alfred John Mulholland (who married Mabel Charlotte Saunderson); Hon. Alice Elizabeth Mulholland (wife of John George Beresford Massy-Beresford and mother to Monica Wichfeld); Hon. Helen Mulholland (wife of

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); and Hon. Louisa Frances Mulholland (wife of Edward Roger Murray Pratt). His mother was a daughter of Harriet Cromie (a daughter of John Cromie) and Hugh Lyle of Knocktarna in

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. His father was the eldest son of the former Elizabeth MacDonnell (a daughter of Thomas MacDonnell of Belfast) and

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Andrew Mulholland of Ballywalter Park. The Mulholland family were prominent in the cotton and linen industry in Ireland.

Career

He served as High Sheriff of Down in 1884. The following year, he was returned to the

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for Londonderry North, a seat he held until the 1895 general election. Later that year, he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the

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Personal life

In 1881, Lord Dunleath was married to Norah Louisa Fanny Ward, the only surviving daughter of Hon. Somerset Richard Hamilton Augustus Ward (fifth son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor), by his wife Norah Mary Elizabeth Hill (only daughter of

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, fifth son of

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). Together, they were the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter, including: * Hon. Andrew Edward Somerset Mulholland (1882–1914), who married Lady Hester Joan Byng (1888–1976), fifth daughter of the Rev. Francis Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford, in 1913. He was

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in the

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. After his death, his widow remarried to Field Marshal

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. * Hon. Eva Norah Helen Mulholland (1884–1972), who married Capt John Vernon Saunderson, a son of

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, MP. * Charles Henry George Mulholland, 3rd Baron Dunleath (1886–1956), who married Sylvia Henrietta Brooke, eldest daughter of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Baronet, in 1920. After her death in 1921, he married Henrietta Grace D'Arcy, second daughter of Most Rev. Charles D'Arcy,

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and

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. * Sir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet (1888–1971), who became Speaker of the

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and was created a

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in 1945. * Hon. Godfrey John Arthur Murray Lyle Mulholland (1892–1948), who married Hon. Olivia Vernon Harcourt, a daughter of

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and Mary Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt. Olivia served as Woman of the Bedchamber to

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. Lord Dunleath died on 22 March 1931, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son

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. Lady Dunleath died in 1935.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

Descendants

Through his second son, he was a grandfather of Charles Mulholland, 4th Baron Dunleath (1933–1993).

Sailing

He inherited the schooner ''Egeria'' from his father, and had the Charles E Nicholson designed 4 ton lugger ''Wolfhound'' built for him at Camper and Nicholsons, Gosport in 1893.

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