Sir Redmond Everard, 4th Baronet (1689 – 13 April 1742) was an Irish Jacobite

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and politician.

Biography

He was the youngest son of Sir John Everard, 3rd Baronet, whose family effectively owned the town of Fethard in

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. Redmond himself was elected sovereign of Fethard in 1707 under its

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. His mother was the Hon. Eleanor Butler, eldest daughter of Thomas Cahir, 6th

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and Elizabeth Matthew. His father was killed at the

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in 1691 and his estates forfeited as a

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. After his mother's death shortly afterwards he was brought up by his

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relatives, Lady Mary Butler and her husband,

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, and conformed to the Protestant faith, although his family had been

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for generations. Thanks to the Devonshire influence he was able to recover the lands forfeited on his father's death in 1691. In June 1721 he married Mary Drake, only daughter of Montague Drake of

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, and Jane Garrard, daughter of Sir John Garrard, 3rd Baronet. They had no children. He sat in the

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as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny City from 1711 to 1713, and for Fethard, County Tipperary from 1713 to 1715. Although he took the

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to qualify for his seat in Parliament, his loyalty to the

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was suspect, and with good reason: nicknamed "the little

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", he became a familiar figure in Jacobite cabals. After the failure of the

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, he felt it wise to retire to France, where he settled near

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; he never returned to Ireland. His status as an

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caused him considerable financial difficulties, and he eventually sold much of his estate to a Mr. Barton, of the famous

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wine merchant family.O'Hart ''Irish Pedigrees'' In June 1723, the claimant King James III & VIII ennobled Everard as Viscount Everard in the

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. He died in France on 13 April 1742, without heirs: he left his property to his widow Mary for her lifetime, and after her death to James Long, a distant cousin, who belonged to another branch of the Everard family. His titles became extinct on his death.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Everard, Redmond 1680s births 1742 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tipperary constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Irish emigrants to France Irish Jacobites Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 104 Viscounts in the Jacobite peerage Politicians from County Tipperary