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William Stewart, 1st Earl of Blessington (7 April 170914 August 1769) was an
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...
peer and member of the
House of Lords
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, styled The Honourable William Stewart until 1728 and known as The Viscount Mountjoy from 1728 to 1745.
Life
Stewart was the son of
William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy
William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy (1675 – 10 January 1728), was an Anglo-Irish peer.
William Stewart was born in 1675, the son of Sir William Stewart, later 1st Viscount Mountjoy. His father was a leader of the Irish Protestants during t ...
and Anne Boyle. He married Eleanor Fitzgerald, daughter of Robert Fitzgerald, on 10 January 1733. They had two children, William Stewart and Lionel Robert, both of whom died before their father.
He succeeded his father as
Viscount Mountjoy on 10 January 1727. He was Grand Master of the Freemasons (in Ireland) between 1738 and 1740. He was created Earl of Blessington on 7 December 1745, his mother having been sister and sole heiress of
Charles, 2nd and last Viscount Blesington.
He was made Governor of
County Tyrone
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and in 1748, was sworn of the
Privy Council of Ireland
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.
On his death in London on 14 August 1769, he was buried at
Silchester in
Hampshire
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. His peerages became extinct, but his baronetcy was inherited by a distant cousin, Sir Annesley Stewart.
References
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1709 births
1769 deaths
Earls in the Peerage of Ireland
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