Captain Hildebrand Alington, 5th
Baron Alington
Baron Alington was a title that was created three times in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 28 July 1642 when William Alington was made Baron Alington, of Killard in the County of Cork. His second son, the th ...
of
(3 August 1641 – 11 February 1722/23) was an
Irish peer
The peerage of Ireland consists of those Peerage, titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lordship of Ireland, Lord or Monarchy of Ireland, King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great B ...
, the son of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington of Killard, and Lady Alington, the former Elizabeth Tollemache. He was one of the couple's youngest children, and his forename was a family name that honoured their Norman ancestor, Sir Hildebrand de Alington.
He became an army officer, receiving a captain's commission from King
James II of England
James II and VII (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II of England, Charles II, on 6 February 1 ...
in 1685.
Hildebrand succeeded to the Irish title of 5th
Baron Alington
Baron Alington was a title that was created three times in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 28 July 1642 when William Alington was made Baron Alington, of Killard in the County of Cork. His second son, the th ...
on 18 September 1691, on the death of his nephew, the 4th Baron, who had died without male issue; the English peerage became extinct.
[G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 108.]
In 1700, he sold part of his estate, possibly anticipating the extinction of the title.
He never married, though his elder brother William had urged him to,
and on his death the Irish Barony, Alington of Killard, also became extinct.
References
Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
1641 births
1723 deaths
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