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  Kerr Family Chronicles - Christopher E. Brennen
Parish of Clonfeacle, Townland of Cadian, from the Earl of Caledon:
Parish of Clonfeacle, Townland of Moygashel, from the Earl of Ranfurly:
Parish of Derryloran, Townland of Cluntydoon, from Earl of Castlestuart:
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 Lewis: Co. Tyrone
Close to the town are extensive flour-mills, erected by Lord Caledon in 1823, where above 9000 tons of wheat are ground annually, all of which is grown in the vicinity, where scarcely an acre of wheat was sown at the beginning of the century.
There are several large and elegant houses in the neighbourhood, the principal of which is Caledon Hill, the seat of the Earl of Caledon, which stands in a richly ornamented demesne of 650 Irish acres, extending beyond the Blackwater into the county of Armagh.
Caledon gives the titles of Baron, Viscount, and Earl to the family of Alexander, in which the proprietorship of the town is vested.
www.trainweb.org /i3/lewis_tyr.htm   (11329 words)

  
 Earl of Caledon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777-1839), elected a Representative Peer in 1804 (Governor of the Cape Colony in 1807
James Du Pre Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (1812-1855), elected a Representative Peer in 1841
James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon (1846-1898), elected a Representative Peer in 1877
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Caledon   (156 words)

  
 List of Earls
This is a list of present Earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
The Earl of Selkirk (1646, presently disclaimed by the Lord Selkirk of Douglas)
The Earl Brooke and of Warwick (1746, known as the Earl of Warwick)
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_earls.html   (124 words)

  
 Earl of Caledon
The Earldom of Caledon was created in 1800 in the Peerage of Ireland.
Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777-1839)
James Du Pre Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (1812-1855)
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/earl_of_caledon   (155 words)

  
 Caledon Tyrone county, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
CALEDON, a market and post-town, in the parish of AUGHALOO, barony of DUNGANNON, county of TYRONE, and province of ULSTER, 7 miles (W.) from Armagh city, and 70 miles (N. W.) from Dublin ; containing 1079 inhabitants.
Monday in each month, for the manor of Caledon, which extends into the parishes of Aughaloo and Clonfeacle, in the county of Tyrone, and of Tynan, in that of Armagh ; and petty sessions are held in the town once a fortnight.
Schools at Ramakit, Curlough, Dyan, and Minterburn, are principally supported by Lord Caledon; there are national schools at: Rahaghy and Mullinahorn; and near the demesne is a female school built and supported by the Countess of Caledon, in which 40 girls are clothed and educated.
www.from-ireland.net /lewis/t/caledon.htm   (885 words)

  
 Caledon Overberg Welcome
Caledon, an agricultural town on the slopes of the Klein Swartberg, is surrounded by farmlands of wheat, barley, canola and onions.
In 1813 the town was renamed in honour of the Governor, the Earl of Caledon.
Caledon is famous for its hot springs, wild flowers and rich bird life set in the rolling hills of the Overberg district.
www.tourismcapetown.co.za /za/guide/108582sy,en,SCH1/objectId,RGN174za,curr,ZAR,season,at1,selectedEntry,home/home.html   (296 words)

  
 caledon.htm
Lord Caledon was not, literally, the first British civil governor of The Cape, having been preceded in that capacity by Lord Macartney and Sir George Yonge, successive holders of the office between the first conquest of The Cape, and its cession back to the Dutch under the terms of the Peace of Amiens of 1802.
[Illustration of Charles Yorke.] In 1811, the 2nd Earl of Caledon married Lady Catherine Freeman Yorke, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke [illustration of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke].
The political papers of the Caledon, as opposed to the Hardwicke, family, number c.550 documents and volumes and relate almost exclusively to the 2nd Earl of Caledon, who succeeded his father in 1802 and died in 1839.
www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/caledon.htm   (2809 words)

  
 CALEDON - LoveToKnow Article on CALEDON
The streets are lined with blue gums and oaks.
From the early day of Dutch settlement at the Cape Caledon has been noted for the curative value of its mineral springs, which yield 150,000 gallons daily.
The name Caledon was given to the town and district in honor of the 2nd earl of Caledon, governor of the Cape 1807-1811.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CALEDON.htm   (142 words)

  
 Routes Travel Info Portal: Caledon
Caledon is named after the Earl of Caledon, who was Governor
Caledon offers the viewing of historical homes, wild flowers and birds.
Caledon is known for its hot springs - 7 iron-rich (i.e.
www.routes.co.za /wc/caledon   (80 words)

  
 Lewis: Co. Armagh
The public charitable instutions are a district lunatic asylum, and the county infirmary and fever hospital at Armagh; and dispensaries at Crossmeglin, Forkhill, Market-hill, Jonesborough, Keady, Blackwatertown, Seagoe, Loughgall, Richhill, Lurgan, Newtown-Hamilton, Poyntz-Pass, Tynan, Portadown, Tanderagee and Ballybott, supported by equal Grad Jury presentments and private subscriptions.
The northern verge of the county, near Lough Neagh, the north-western adjoining Tyrone, and the neighbourhoods of Armagh, Market-hill, and Tanderagee, are level; the remainder is hilly, rising in the sourthern parts into mountains of considerable elevation.
The school at Middletown was founded in 1820, by the trustees of Bishop Sterne's charity, who have endowed it with about £70 per ann.; and the school at Drumhillery was built and is chiefly supported by the Earl of Caledon; in these and in the parochial school at Crossdall, about 250 children are educated.
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 Queen Victoria's Visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A white lace coverlet was lined with green silk, and the hangings, according to a correspondent, were 'of elegant chintz with a white ground'.
After breakfast at ten o'clock, the Queen was shown some of the treasures of Wimpole, including, as she later wrote to her cousin, the Queen of the Belgians, "a sofa covered with a piece of drapery given by Louis XIV to the poet Matthew Prior, and by him to Lord Oxford, then owner of Wimpole."
The Prince went shooting in the Park with the earl and one of his gentlemen.
www.wimpole.info /victorias_visit.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Web Caledon at Local.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
COUNTY TYRONE The small town of Caledon began to grow after 1778 when the Alexander family bought land in the area.
James Alexander became the Earl of Caledon in 1800.
The Druids of Caledon came into being in the summer of 2004.
www.local.co.uk /Caledon/Web   (377 words)

  
 Clan Alexander
ALEXANDER: The Alexanders of Menstrie in Clackmannanshire are descendants of the MacAlisters of Loup in Kintyre, and likewise claim their descent from Alasdair Mor, son of Donald of Islay (1207-49), founder of Clan Donald.
Sir William was firstly created Viscount, then Earl of Stirling in 1630 and for some obscure reason he was accepted by MacAlister of Tarbert as Chief of Clan Alasdair in 1631, while the real chief was the MacAlister Laird of Loup.
Such are presently represented by the 7th Earl of Caledon, The Rt.Hon.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/atoc/alexander2.html   (316 words)

  
 Belfast Telegraph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lady Mary Bury, youngest daughter of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, still lives at Mount Stewart near Newtownards and the 8th Earl of Belmore, John Lowrey-Corry, on the family estate at Castle Coole near Enniskillen.
The 6th Earl of Erne, John Crichton, is the largest landowner in Fermanagh with 15,000 acres at the family home, Crom Castle near Newtownbutler, where he farms.
The 7th Earl of Caledon, Nicholas Alexander, owns 9,400 acres in Tyrone and Armagh where the family home, Caledon Castle, is situated.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /top100_04/story.jsp?story=514013   (876 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, Earl Alexander of Tunis 1, b.
Alexander, James Du Pre, Earl of Caledon 3rd, b.
Alexander, Shane William Desmond, Earl Alexander of Tunis 2, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /public/genealogy/royal/gedx00.html   (448 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 27   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Du Pre, Earl of Caledon 2nd Alexander, b.
Duncan of Fife, Earl of Fife MacDuff, b.
Duncan of Fife, Earl of Fife 10th Macduff, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /genealogy/royal/gedFx27.html   (488 words)

  
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No election has taken place since 1919 and the post of Lord Chancellor of Ireland was abolished after the establishment of the Irish Free State.
The last Irish representative peer (the 4th Earl of Kilmorey) died in 1961.
As part of the Peerage Act 1963,Section 5 provided that an Irish peer can be elected as a member of the House of Commons for any constituency in the United Kingdom.
www.angeltowns.com /town/peerage/reppeersireland.htm   (196 words)

  
 blayney.htm
The Caledon estate, in Tyrone, is just a few fields away from that of the Leslies in Glaslough, Co. Monaghan, and the Earls of Caledon themselves owned a few acres in Co Monaghan.
This brought political figures such as Dawson and Leslie beating a path to Caledon's door, because during this period he was the representative of Blayney and 'the Blayney interest'.
This includes Blayney leases, deeds, reconveyances of mortgages, and marriage settlements etc. The latter are in respect of the marriages of the 9th Lord Blayney in 1766-7 and the 11th Lord, to Mabella Alexander, daughter of the 1st Earl of Caledon, in 1797.
www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/blayney.htm   (3233 words)

  
 Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape of Good Hope 1797-1802 by Dorothea Fairbridge.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lady Anne Lindsay was the eldest child of James, 5th Earl of Balcarres, and Anne Dalrymple, who was many years his junior.
It was with a sense of relief, therefore, that Lady Anne left the Cape at the beginning of 1802, her husband remaining until the Batavian Republic took over in February 1803.
When Britain again occupied the Cape in 1806Barnard returned to his old post under the Earl of Caledon, but Lady Anne remained at home.
www.up.ac.za /asservices/ais/gw/barnard.htm   (743 words)

  
 Alexander of Tunis, 1st Earl Biography / Biography of Alexander of Tunis, 1st Earl Biography Biography
The British field marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), was the supreme Allied commander of the Mediterranean theater in World War II.
Harold Alexander was born in Northern Ireland on December 10, 1891, the third son of the 4th Earl of Caledon and of Lady Elizabeth Graham Toler, daughter of the 3d Earl of Norbury.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
www.bookrags.com /biography-alexander-of-tunis-1st-earl/index.html   (262 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Name Index 31
Harold Rupert Leofic George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis b.
James Du Pre, 3rd Earl of Caledon b.
Shane William Desmond, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis b.
www.thepeerage.com /i31.htm   (194 words)

  
 Genealogy Index for surnames beginning with A
Alexander, Dupre 2nd Earl of Caledon, Col. (14 DEC 1777-8 APR 1839)
Alexander, James Dupre 3rd Earl of Caledon, Capt. (27 JUL 1812-30 JUN 1855)
Alexander, James Heics 1st Earl of Caledon, (1736-22 MAR 1802)
www.stepaside.net /naismith/idxa.htm   (248 words)

  
 15 January 1813 - Judges of the Black Circuit Court return to the Cape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In a subsequent report, they heavily criticised the Cape authorities' handling of the issue and stated that the Cape Governor, the Earl of Caledon, and the landdrost of Uitenhage, Colonel J. Cuyler, were unconcerned with the atrocities.
On 9 August 1811, the Colonial Secretary instructed Sir John Cradock, who had since replaced the Earl of Caledon as Cape Governor, to carefully investigate the allegations of misdeeds against the Khoikhoi and to heavily penalise anyone convicted of atrocities in the districts of George, Graaff-Reinet and Uitenhage.
Even though there was no jury system in the Cape Colony at the time, great care was taken to ensure that the accused were fairly tried.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/thisday/1813-01-15.htm   (501 words)

  
 Genealogy Books
The letter is addressed to the Earl of Caledon and is dated November 25th 1915.
Nash attempts to persuade the Earl of the safety of structure of one of the domes at Caledon House, Co Tyrone and continues on in considerable detail.
Accompanying these are 3 photographs-2 of Caledon House and another with a profile of Nash and relevant copies of magazine clippings relating to Nash's life and to Caledon House.
theoldentimes.com /family_histories_n-o.html   (886 words)

  
 The Life of Father Dolling, by Charles E. Osborne (1903)
His mother was Eliza, daughter of Josias Dupres Alexander, M.P. (who was a director of the East India Company), and niece of the first Earl of Caledon.
About 1580 a cadet of the family, having become a Huguenot, fled to England, and settled in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorsetshire, where he was living in 1613, in the reign of James I. The present Dolling arms were granted in 1616.
The parish of Magheralin, in which Dolling was born and of which his grandfather was rector (having been also landlord of the estates of Magheralin and Dollingstown), possessed ruins of great antiquity, it having been in early days a centre of Celtic Christianity of the type common to Ireland, lona, and Northumbria.
justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/england/dolling/osborne/01.html   (4045 words)

  
 Rotten Borough
A rotten borough was a parliamentary constituencies that had declined in size but still had the right to elect members of the House of Commons.
Plympton Earle had been a prosperous market town in the Middle Ages but by the 19th century it had declined to the level of a country village.
Newtown on the Isle of Wight had been a market town but by the time of the 1832 Reform Act it had been reduced to a village of 14 houses.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRrotten.htm   (350 words)

  
 Yorke Monumental Inscriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Philip Yorke 3rd Earl of Hardwicke † (1757-1834), wife Elizabeth †, and Family.
Daughter of James, fifth Earl of Balcarres, by whom he had four sons,
Elizabeth, to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, and Caroline, to John, Earl Somers.
www.wimpole.info /yorke_inscriptions.htm   (1312 words)

  
 The History and Topography of the County of Clare by James Frost: Chapter 10 - List of the Protestant Bishops of ...
He was chaplain to the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant.
Charles Dalrymple Lyndsay, D.D., son of the Earl of Balcarras, came to Ireland as private secretary to the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant, and was appointed to this see, but in the year following he abandoned it for a better, that of Kildare.
Nathaniel Alexander, D.D., Cambridge, nephew of the Earl of Caledon, came from Clonfert to Killaloe, but did not remain even as long as his predecessor, since he got promoted in the course of the same year to Down and Connor; he subsequently went to Meath.
www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/history/frost/chap10_killaloe_protestant_bishops.htm   (1289 words)

  
 About Us
About Us The Lady Elizabeth Jane Alexander is the daughter of the Earl of Caledon and Baroness de Greavenitz, and was born March
The Lady Jane, or Janey as she is known to her friends, was brought up at Caledon Castle, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and was educated at Lady Tryon's English boarding school, The Manor House, Durnford in Wiltshire, where she spent most of her schooldays riding ponies.
The Lady Jane then went on to public school at Croft House, Shillingstone in Dorset, deep in the heart of the English countryside, where once more she rode ponies and horses.
www.equine-therapist.com /About_Us/about_us.html   (199 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Still: Books: David Feintuch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
After the sudden death of his mother, young Prince Rodrigo of Caledon has to fight for his right to rule rather than be subjected to a regency he probably would not survive.
He is callow, selfish, and burdened by the requirement to remain a virgin (with women, anyway) in order to wield royal power.
The Still is the coming of age story of Roddy, the future king of Caledon and wielder of the Still - a magical power.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446672858?v=glance   (2878 words)

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