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Mark McDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim DL ( Kerr; 3 April 1814 – 19 December 1869), was an Anglo-Irish peer of Irish and Scottish descent who served in the

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Early life

Born Mark Kerr on 3 April 1814, he was baptised on 21 April 1814 at

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. He was the seventh son of Vice-Admiral Lord Mark Robert Kerr and Charlotte Kerr, 3rd Countess of Antrim. Among his many siblings were Lady Georgina Anne Emily Kerr (who married the Rev. Hon. Frederic Bertie, son of the 4th Earl of Abingdon), Lady Caroline Mary Kerr (who married the Rev. Horace Robert Pechell, parents of Adm.

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), Lady Charlotte Kerr (who married

Sir George Osborn, 6th Baronet Sir George Robert Osborn, 6th Baronet Justice of the Peace, JP Deputy Lieutenant, DL (29 October 1813 – 11 January 1892), of Chicksands Priory in Bedfordshire, was an English politician. Early life Osborn was born on 29 October 1813 in London ...

), Lady Emily Frances Kerr (who married Henry Richardson and Sir Steuart Macnaghten, son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet), Lady Letitia Louise Kerr (who married Cortlandt MacGregor Skinner), Charles Fortescue Kerr, ''styled''

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, Hugh McDonnell (who married Lady Laura Cecilia Parker, daughter of the 5th Earl of Macclesfield), and Lady Frederica Augusta Kerr (who married

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). His father was the third son of

William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian General William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian, (13 March 1737 – 4 January 1815), styled Lord Newbattle until 1767 and Earl of Ancram from 1767 to 1775, was a British soldier and peer. Early life He was the son of William Kerr, 4th Marq ...

, and Elizabeth Fortescue (a daughter of Chichester Fortescue of

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). His maternal grandparents were Randal William MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim and Hon. Letitia ( Morres) Trevor (widow of the Hon. Arthur Trevor and eldest daughter of 1st Viscount Mountmorres). His maternal aunt was Anne MacDonnell, 2nd Countess of Antrim (who married Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet, and Edmund Phelps), who succeeded her father's earldom while the marquisate became extinct upon his death in 1791. Through his aunt Anne, he was a first cousin of

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Career

Kerr was a

in the

and served as Deputy Lieutenant of

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.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes.'' Crans, Switzerland:

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, 1999, volume 1, page 91. Upon the death of his elder brother on 19 July 1855, he succeeded as the 5th

and the 5th

Earl of Antrim Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The titl ...

, both in the

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.Mrs E. M. Fullerton, "Ker, Marquess of Lothian" in ''

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'', ed. Sir

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, vol. V (Edinburgh, 1908
pp. 482–3
On 8 November 1855, his name was legally changed to Mark McDonnell by Royal licence.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,

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, U.K.:

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, 2000), volume I, page 178.

Personal life

On 27 April 1849, Kerr married Jane Emma Hannah Macan (1824–1892), daughter of Maj. Turner Macan of the

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and Harriet Sneyd (a daughter of Rev. Wettenhall Sneyd). Together, they were the parents of ten children, including: * William Randal McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim (1851–1918), who married Lady Louisa Jane Grey, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Hon. Charles Grey (

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) and Caroline Eliza Farquhar, in 1875. * Hon. Mark Henry Horace McDonnell (1852–1909), who married his cousin, Emily Fanny Dorothy Osborn, daughter of

and Lady Charlotte Kerr, in 1892. * Lady Caroline Elizabeth McDonnell (–1930), who married Rev. Hon. Alberic Edward Bertie, son of

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and Elizabeth Vernon-Harcourt, in 1881. * Hon. Hugh Seymour McDonnell (1855–1879), who died unmarried. * Hon. Alexander McDonnell (1857–1945), a Clerk of the House of Lords who never married. * Lady Mabel Harriet McDonnell (1858–1942), who married Henry Charles Howard, son of Henry Howard and Charlotte Caroline Georgina Long, in 1878. * Lady Evelyn McDonnell (1860–1947), who died unmarried. * Hon. Sir

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(1861–1915), the

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; he married Ethel Henry Davis, daughter of Maj. Alexander Henry Davis, in 1913.McDONNELL, Hon. Sir Schomberg Kerr’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; * Lady Jane Grey McDonnell (1863–1953), who married her second cousin once-removed,

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, son of

Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton Charles Henry Rolle Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton (2 March 1834 – 29 March 1904), styled The Honourable Charles Trefusis between 1832 and 1866, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State ...

and Harriet Williamina Hepburn-Forbes (a daughter of Sir John Hepburn-Forbes, 8th Baronet), in 1886. * Lady Helena McDonnell (1865–1948), who married Capt.

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, son of Charles Balfour and Hon. Adelaide Barrington (a daughter of the 6th Viscount Barrington), in 1888. Lord Antrim died on 19 December 1869. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son,

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. His widow, the dowager Countess of Antrim, died on 21 April 1892 at Fettwecairne House,

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, Scotland.

References

External links

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