William Alington, 1st
Baron Alington of
(baptised 14 March 1610/1611 – buried 25 October 1648) 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 Sir Giles Alington. He was created 1st Baron Alington of Killard, on 28 July 1642.
Biography
He married Elizabeth Tollemache, daughter of
Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Stanhope, before 1 October 1631. They had at least 6 children:
[Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 4.]
*Elizabeth Alington (1632-1691), who married firstly
Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, and secondly Sir
John Ernle
Sir John Ernle (1620 – June 1697) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1695. He was one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer, a position he held from 2 May 1676 to 9 April 1 ...
, a
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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; there were children from her first marriage
*Giles Alington, 2nd Baron Alington of Killard (1640s-1660), who died before coming of age
*
William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington
Major General William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington LL (bef. 1641 – 1 February 1685) was an Irish peer.
Alington was the son of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington and Elizabeth Tollemache. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Alington of ...
of Killard (bef. 1641–1685), who married, firstly, Lady Catherine Stanhope; secondly, Hon. Juliana Noel, by whom he had children; and thirdly, Lady Diana Russel, by whom he had children
*
Hildebrand Alington, 5th Baron Alington of Killard (1641–1722/23), who died unmarried
*Catherine Alington, who married Sir John Jacob, 2nd Baronet, and had one child
*Diana Alington, who died unmarried.
After his death, his widow, Lady Alington, remarried Sir
William Compton, who died in 1663. She died in 1671.
References
Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
Peers of Ireland created by Charles I
1611 births
1658 deaths
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