Nicholas Barnewall, 3rd Viscount Barnewall (1668–1725) was an Irish nobleman who fought for the Jacobites but afterwards sat in William's Irish Parliament. He was buried in a beautiful monument at Lusk.

Birth and origins

Nicholas Barnewall was born on 15 April 1668 in Ireland. He was the eldest son of Henry Barnewall and his second wife Mary Nugent. His father had succeeded his grandfather as the 2nd Viscount in 1663. Nicholas's grandfather, also named Nicholas Barnewall, had been ennobled by King Charles I on 12 September 1645 for loyalty to his cause. His mother was a daughter of

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Marriage and children

Before Nicholas was of age, on 15 April 1688, he married Mary Hamilton, daughter of George Hamilton, Comte Hamilton, son of Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Donalong, by his wife, Frances Jennings, who afterwards married

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). Nicholas and Mary had three children: #Frances (died 1735), who married her distant cousin Richard Barnewall and was the mother of Nicholas Barnewall, 14th Baron Trimlestown #Henry Benedict (1708–1774), 4th Viscount Barnewall #George (1711–1771), who would be the father of the 5th Viscount

Career

In 1688 he entered King James's Irish army as

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in the

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s. After the defeat of the Boyne he was moved to

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; and being in that city at the time of its surrender, was included in the articles and secured his estates. In the first Irish Parliament of William III he took the

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, but upon declining to subscribe the declaration according to the English

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, as contrary to his conscience, he was obliged to withdraw with the other Catholic lords. In February 1703, he joined with many

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s in an unavailing petition against the infraction of the

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Death

Lord Barnewall died 14 June 1725, and was buried in a beautiful monument at Lusk.

Notes and references

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* – Ab-Adam to Basing (for Barnewall) * 1668 births 1725 deaths

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