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 | | In 1772, the 1st Lord Erne was described for legal purposes as being 'of Crom Castle', as were the 1st Earl Erne in 1796 and 1808 and Colonel the Hon. |
 | | Abraham Creighton, from 1789 styled Viscount Creighton, and from 1828 2nd Earl Erne, was MP for Lifford, 1790-1797, and served in the 14th Light Dragoon and in the Fermanagh Militia (embodied in 1793). |
 | | The 1st Earl Erne seems in the 1810s and 1820s to have added, by purchase, 8,700 Irish acres to his inherited 5,759 in Co. Fermanagh; and his grandson, the 3rd Earl, continued the process by spending between 1842 and 1872 £93,108 on Fermanagh land with a rental of £4,601 by 1875. |
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