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	List of Earls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Earl of Limerick (1803 - Peerage of Ireland)
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		The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1822 - Peerage of Ireland)
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		The Earl of Portarlington, K.P., D.L. Thomas Kemmis, esq.
		Portrait courtesy of the Earl of Portarlington The second Earl of Portarlington was not a fortunate man. He was late joining his regiment at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and suffered...
		Earl of Bradford - 24 October 1874 Earl of Portarlington - 24 August 1878 Duke of Manchester - 28 December 1878 Lord Suffield - 3 May 1879 Earl of Donoughmore - 25 October 1879 Marquis...
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	John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A close relative of the Campbell clan (his mother was a daughter of the First Duke of Argyll), Bute succeeded to the earldom upon his father's death in 1723.
		He was brought up thereafter by his maternal uncles, the Duke of Argyll and the Earl of Ilay, and studied at Eton and the University of Leiden.
		John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington on 1 January 1778.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stuart,_3rd_Earl_of_Bute (693 words)

	Earl of Portarlington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Earldom of Portarlington was created in 1785 in the Peerage of Ireland.
		John Dawson, 2nd Viscount Carlow (1744-1798) (became Earl of Portarlington in 1785)
		Lionel Arthur Henry Seymour Dawson-Damer, 6th Earl of Portarlington (1883-1959)
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/e/ea/earl_of_portarlington.html (110 words)

	Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (14 March 1855–7 November 1944) was the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
		He was born at Lowndes Square in London, the son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife, the former Frances Smith.
		From 1937 Bowes-Lyon was known as "14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne," because he was the 14th Earl in the peerage of Scotland but the 1st Earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_Bowes-Lyon,_14th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne (290 words)

	QUEEN'S COUNTY - LoveToKnow Article on QUEEN'S COUNTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Charles Douglas, the 3rd 'duke (1698-1778), who had been created earl of Solway in 1706, was lord justice general from 1763 until his death in October 1778.
		In 1720 he married Catherine, daughter of Henry Hyde, 4th earl of Clarendon; this lady, a famous beauty, although very eccentric, was the friend of many of the wits and writers of her day, notably of Gay, Swift and Walpole.
		Among the principal old castles are the ruined fortress of the O'Mores occupying the precipitous rock of Dunamase, 3 m.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /Q/QU/QUEEN_S_COUNTY.htm (1091 words)

	The Midland Boroughs in the 1830's : Portarlington - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
		The Town of Portarlington is situate on the Barrow, where that river separates the King's and Queen's Counties, and the portion of the borough which lies upon the left bank is in the King's, and that on the right bank in the Queen's County.
		The borough is situate within the manor of Portarlington, and, as already mentioned, "the sovereign, bailiffs, burgesses, and freemen, and all inhabitants, and their successors for ever," were "to do suit and service in that Manor," and to plead and be impleaded in its Courts.
		Lord Portarlington had, in 1802, only recently attained his majority, and was stated to have been absent from the country when the resolution of that year was passed and the conveyance executed.
	www.irishmidlandsancestry.com /content/laois/community/borough_portarlington.htm (5203 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)
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	A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
		In the R. divisions Portarlington is the head of a union or district, called Portarlington, Emo and Killinard, and comprising parts of the parishes of Clonehorke and Coolbanagher, and the parish of Lea, with the exception of the townland of Inchcoolley.
		The manor descended by marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, to Lionel, Duke of Clarence, from whom it passed to the Mortimer family, and subsequently to the Earl of Clanricarde, to whom it was confirmed, in 1610, together with the castle, monastery, fair and markets.
		The Earl of Clanricarde died in 1636, and was succeeded by Ulic, the fifth Earl of that family, who, on the breaking out of the war in 1641, fortified his castle and took every precaution to secure the peace of the county.
	www.booksulster.com /library/topog/p.php (17594 words)

	A-Z of Offaly in 1837 - Offaly History, Archaeology, Offaly Towns, Heritage, Research, King's County
		In 1533, Gerald, Earl of Kildare, then lord-deputy, laid siege to the castle in support of Ferganainim O'Carrol, his son-in-law, but soon raised the siege, in consequence of a wound received from one of the garrison.
		The sovereign is elected annually from among the burgesses; and a recorder, who may be either a burgess or not, is appointed by the Earl of Portarlington; the appointment of freemen has been for some time discontinued, and there is at present only one.
		In the R.C. divisions Portarlington is the head of a union or district, called Portarlington, Emo and Killinard, and comprising parts of the parishes of Clonehorke and Coolbanagher, and the parish of Lea, with the exception of the townland of Inchcoolley.
	www.offalyhistory.com /content/reading_resources/offaly_gen/a-z/offaly_l-p.htm (4907 words)

	Peerage of Ireland - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Earl of Shrewsbury in the Peerage of England;
		Earl of Denbigh in the Peerage of England
		Earl of Scarbrough in the Peerage of England
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	Dreyer's History of Armagh Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		EARL STANHOPE said, he was willing to amend the recital, but he was reluctant to withdraw the clause in the absence of a more distinct assurance from the Government.
		EARL GREY said, he thought the claims of the Observatory might safely be intrasted to the Irish Members of the House of Commons.
		EARL STANHOPE said, he felt himself in a difficult position, being charged with the interest of others; but having taken the advice of those round him, and trusting that the favourable consideration promised by the Government signified an intention to propose a grant, he would withdraw the clause.
	star.arm.ac.uk /history/dreyer-history.html (4279 words)

	HENRY BROOKE PARNELL, 1ST BARON CONGLETON - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY BROOKE PARNELL, 1ST BARON CONGLETON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In 1801 he succeeded to the family estates in Queens county, and married a daughter of the earl of Portarlington; and in 802, by his father-in-laws interest, he was returned for Portarlington to parliament, but he speedily resigned the seat.
		In the 13th century, as part of the barony of Halton, the manor passed to Henry, earl of Lincoln, who by a charter dated 1282 declared the town a free borough, with a gild merchant and numerous privileges, including power to elect a mayor, a catchpole and an aletaster.
		In 282 Henry, earl of Lincoln, obtained a Saturday market and an eight days fair at the feast of St Peter ad Vincula, and the market is still held under this grant.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CONGLETON_HENRY_BROOKE_PARNELL_1ST_BARON.htm (836 words)

	Parish of Portarlington - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy, Parish Histories
		The town of Portarlington is built partly in the King's County, and partly in the Queen's County, but chiefly in the latter.
		A.D. The Earl of Ormond, Lord Justice of Ireland……took the castle of Leix from the O'Dempsys, who permitted him to pass to Airem (marked Irry, on the old map of Leix and Ophaley, and placed near the Barrow), to rescue the son of MacFeorais, who was imprisoned there.
		The Earl of Ormonde, Commander of the Forces in Ireland, who was taken prisoner by Owny MacRory O'More, on the 10th of April, 1600, at Corranduff, eight miles from Kilkenny, on the borders of Idough, was detained in this castle.
	www.irishmidlandsancestry.com /content/laois/community/parishhistories/portarlington_parish.htm (2728 words)

	Articles - Courtesy title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		For instance, the eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry is the Earl of Dalkeith, even though the Duke is also the Marquess of Dumfriesshire, a senior title to the Earldom of Dalkeith.
		For instance, the eldest son of the Earl of Devon is Lord Courtenay, even though the Earl has no barony of that name, and similarly the eldest son of the Earl of Guilford is Lord North.
		Thus a baron's wife is called "baroness", an earl's wife is called a "countess", a duke's wife a "duchess", etc. Despite being referred to as a "peeress", she does not, however, become a peer "in her own right": these are 'styles', not substantive titles.
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	A-Z of Laois in 1837 - Laois History, Laois Towns, Heritage, Research, Queen's County
		PORTARLINGTON, a borough market, and post-town, partly in the parish of CLONEHORKE, barony of UPPER PHILIPSTOWN, KING's county, but chiefly in the parish of LEA, barony of PORTHEHINCH, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 9 1/2 miles (N.E.) from Maryborough, and 341/2 (W.S.W.) from Dublin; containing 3091 inhabitants.
		Stradbally Hall, the residence of T. Cosby, Esq., is a handsome mansion adjoining the town, and situated in a highly embellished demesne, within the limits of which was formerly the ancient castle of the O'Mores.
		Brockley Park, formerly occupied by the Earl of Roden, and now the residence and property of W. Farrer, Esq., is pleasantly situated on the opposite side of the town.
	www.offalyhistory.com /content/reading_resources/neighbouring_counties/laois_a-z/laois_o-v.htm (5454 words)

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		Dr. Rice was for many years not only Portarlington's most respected medical officer but must rank at the very top of the list of Portarlington's many "characters".
		Lord Carlow was the son of the Earl of Portarlington and in the mid 1920s, when the family had removed to England, he wrote down some of his memories from his childhood days at Emo Court.
		It would appear that in the spring of 1904 a lady with the grand title of The Dowager Countess of Ravensworth arrived at Emo Court and took charge of the household for the Portarlingtons who were away on an extended holiday in France.
	www.laoisedcentre.ie /heritage/rice.htm (983 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Two killed in Festival of Speed
		The fatally injured driver was named as father-of-two John Dawson-Damer, the brother of the Earl of Portarlington.
		The Earl of Portarlington, speaking from the family home in Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, said on Sunday: "Obviously his family is devastated by what happened.
		The Earl of March, the founder of the Festival of Speed, said: "I am extremely upset by the accident to John.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_804000/804386.stm (345 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Thomas_Pakenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		For further people of the same name, see Earl of Longford.
		Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born August 14, 1933) is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has authored several prize winning books on the diverse subjects of Victorian and post-Victorian British history and trees.
		He is the son of Frank Pakenham, a Labour minister and human rights campaigner, and Elizabeth Longford; his sister, Antonia Fraser, is also a writer.
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	A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
		The seats are Elm Park, that of the Earl of Charlemont; Knappagh, of James Johnston, Esq.; Glenaule, of Joseph Johnston, Esq.; the glebe-house, of the Rev. W.
		Two spacious quays have been lately constructed, at an expense of £9000, defrayed partly by the trustees of the Earl of Portsmouth's estate, and partly by subscription: the quay on the Templeshannon side is 450 feet, and that on the opposite side, which it is in contemplation to extend, is 500 feet in length.
		While the Earl of Ormonde acted in concert with the royalists, this town opposed the parliamentarian interest and firmly resisted every attack made upon it by the forces of that party; but it was finally compelled to surrender to Sir Charles Coote.
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	Ireland Travel Guide: County Laois
		The county’s capital was founded by Queen Mary in 1555 as a walled fort to protect the southern end of the Pale, and was named Maryborough after her.
		The town was a fort back in 140 AD and since then has had a fascinating history, mirroring Ireland’s, including being plundered by the Vikings in 842, and being given to Strongbow by the King of Leinster in 1169 as part of Aoife’s dowry.
		It was given to the Earl of Thomond in 1609, fought over during Cromwell’s time and destroyed by his soldiers.
	www.authenticireland.com /travel_guide/laois.htm (1033 words)

	JEAN CAVALIER - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN CAVALIER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		After the peace he crossed to England, where he formed a regiment of refugees which took part in the Spanish expedition under the earl of Peterborough and Sir, Cloudesley Shovel in May 1705.
		There is a story which represents him as the fortunate rival of Voltaire for the hand of Olympe, daughter of Madame Dunoyer, author of the Lettres galantes.
		Malesherbes, the courageous defender of Louis XVI., bears the following eloquent testimony to this young hero of the Cvennes: I confess, he says, that this warrior, who, without ever having served, found himself by the mere gift of nature a great general, this Camis~rd who was bold to punish a crime in.
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAVALIER_JEAN.htm (1123 words)

	Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson - Provenance
		Richard Newport, 2nd earl of Bradford, Weston Park, Stafford; by inheritance to his son, Henry Newport, 3rd earl of Bradford [1683-1734], Weston Park; by inheritance to his brother, Thomas Newport, 4th earl of Bradford [d.
		An Illustrated Descriptive and Historic Account of the Collection of the Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I., Lord Ronald Gower, ed., London, 1885: 29, and J. Weale and J.P. Richter, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889: 92.
		Dawson-Damer, Henry John Reuben, 3rd earl of Portarlington
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg70/gg70-41378.0-prov.html (458 words)

	Emo Court: Pavilioned in splendour: the art and artefacts of Emo.
		Emo Court, Irish home of the Earls of Portarlington, once housed a considerable art collection, built up, mostly haphazardly by inheritances and marriages.
		Mary Damer, 1715-1769, painted by Charles Latham, sister of the 1st Earl of Dorchester, and mother of John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington
		Caroline Damer, 1752-1828, painted by Angelica Kaufmann; sole heiress of the Damer fortune which she bequeathed to the sons of John Dawson, Ist Earl of Portarlington
	www.frenchchurch.freeserve.co.uk /book12.html (240 words)

	History portarlington Golf club
		The history of the Portarlington Golf Club could not be compiled without reference to the Warburton estate; the Golf Course was an integral part of it.
		Its past is intimately bound up in the Warburton estate; it was here that its 9 Hole Course was laid oui in the 1900s when the sale of the major part of the estate was being negotiated between Land Lord and tenant farmer.
		By the death of the Earl of Portarlington in that year, the Queen's County Regiment of Militia, of which his Lordship was Colonel, became vacant.
	www.portarlingtongolf.com /History/warburton1.htm (949 words)

	Portarlington: Emo and the Dawson-Damer family. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		These are some of the news in Lady Portarlington's letters to her husband, and her family in England.
		She was the daughter of the Earl of Bute, and married John Dawson in 1777, in 1785 the first Earl of Portarlington.
		The Earl, her husband, died in 1798 while supervising captured French soldiers who had invaded Ireland that year.
	www.frenchchurch.freeserve.co.uk /Book5.html (124 words)

	ESPNMAG.com - ESPN The Magazine: Another World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Six large men with tiny earpieces are waiting for him, courtesy of the Earl of March, who has been anxious about Montoya's arrival all morning.
		The Earl has Cirque du Soleil acrobats and fireworks in store, not to mention a main course of mille-feuille of Salcombe crab to be served beneath the priceless artwork in his dining room.
		Last year, a brother of the Earl of Portarlington spun out doing 100 mph in a '69 Lotus and jumped scaffolding, killing himself and a marshal and severing the leg of another official.
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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)

	Broadsides 1776-War at Sea During the American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Portarlington knew his daughter's habits - he followed the path to the old abbey ruins, noting that she had come here recently; there were fresh horse droppings on the ground, and the grass had been closely cropped near the old stone walls.
		Portarlington strode over to where the lad, who had sensibly not moved anything, was pointing at something on the ground at the base of the ruined wall.
		As the local justice of the peace, Portarlington was able to call out the local militia, and soon farm laborers and servants, even many of the shopkeepers and their sons from the nearby village of Portartlington, had joined in the search.
	www.broadsides1776.net /fanfic004.htm (20741 words)

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