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Topic: John Dawson, 2nd Viscount Carlow


  
  Carlow Town, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CARLOW, an incorporated borough, market, and post-town, and a parish, in the barony and county of CARLOW, and province of LEINSTER, 18 1/4 miles N.E. from Kilkenny city, and 39 1/4 (S.W. by S.) from Dublin city; containing 9597 inhabitants, of which number, 9114 are in the borough.
He entered the college of Carlow, as professor of rhetoric, in 1809, and was soon it afterwards appointed professor of theology; in 1819 he was raised to the R C see of Kildare and Leighlin, and died of a lingering decline on the 10th of June, 1834.
The district lunatic asylum for the counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, and Kildare, and the county of the city of Kilkenny, is situated in this town, and was built in 1831, at an expense, including the cost of erection and purchase of land and furniture, of £24,552.
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 CARLOW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CARLOW, an inland county of the province of LEINSTER, bounded on the east by the counties of Wicklow and Wexford, on the north by those of Kildare and Wicklow, on the west by the Queen's county and Kilkenny, and on the south by that of Wexford.
In 1346, the county of Carlow, with all its appurtenances, was granted in capite to Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England.
On approaching Carlow, the limestone becomes more silicious and of a deeper colour: at the town the colour is dark or iron grey, and the texture fine-grained, and it is sometimes polished and used for chimney-pieces: to the west of the town the limestone is lighter in colour and much purer.
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 1800 to 1899 - Lisnavagh History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
John and William's step-sister, Emily Selina McClintock, married John B-C-S Wandesforde of Castle Comer, Kilkenny, the eldest son of the Hon.
John and William's step-brother, G.A.J. McClintock, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Sligo Rifles and formerly a captain with the 52nd Light Infantry, marries Catherine Stronge, a sister of William McClintock Bunbury's wife, Pauline, and youngest daughter of Sir James M. Stronge of Tynan Abbey.
John Lefroy is promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel (24th Sept) and sent by Lord Panmure (the new war minister) at two days notice to Constantinople to investigate the condition of hospital staff in the East, and on the accommodation of the sick at Scutari.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The subsidiary titles of the Earldom are: Viscount Carlow (created 1776) and Baron Dawson (1770), both of which are in the Peerage of Ireland.
John Dawson, 2nd Viscount Carlow (1744-1798) (became Earl of Portarlington in 1785)
Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington (1822-1889), elected a Representative Peer in 1855
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 Deaths in Ireland
John ARMSTRONG, Vicar of Kiltoom and Camma, in county Roscommon.
DAWSON, youngest son of the late Henry DAWSON, Esq., of Drummartin Castle, Dundrum, county Dublin.
August 3 at Colchester, Emily Jane, wife of the Rev. John HALLWARD, rector of Sweepstone, Leicestershire, and daughter of the late Charles POWELL LESLIE, Esq., M.P., Glasslough, county Monaghan.
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 MS. Carte Calendar 32
John Segrave, of Cabragh in the County of the City of Dublin, to be fully restored to some lands in Tassagard - Tobergrayne, in the County of Dublin; and to the villages of Rathbeggan and Bristlanstown in the County of Meath, now in the possession of one Standish and of other reprisable persons...
John Forster, son and heir to George Forster of Ballydoude, in the county of Dublin, esquire, deceased, to be restored to the farm of Ballydoude aforesaid, and to all other his manors, lands, mortgages, and hereditaments, whereof he, or his said father, were dispossessed by the usurped power...
John Cole, of Newland, in the county of Dublin, to be a baronet of Ireland.
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 A-Z of Laois in 1837 - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
IV., cap 88, extended to the £10 householders; and as the ancient limits of the borough were but very imperfectly defined and had little relation to the elective franchise, a new boundary has been drawn round the town, comprehending an area of 933 statute acres, of which the limits are minutely detailed in the Appendix.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin, united by act of council, in 1774, to the vicarage of Moyanna, and in the patronage of T. Cosby, Esq.: the rectory is impropriate in the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin.
It is in the diocese of Leighlin; the rectory is impropriate in the representatives of Thos.
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 More Information - Viscount Carlow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He was the son of William Henry Dawson, who had represented Portarlinցton and Queen's County in the Irish House of Commons, and had been created Baron Dawson, of Dawson's Court in tn Queen's County, and Viscount Carlow, in the Peeraցe of Ireland in 1770 and 1776 respectively.
Viscount Carlow is used as a courtesy title for the Earl's eldest son and heir.
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 Horatio Hornblower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For his help Lord Hornblower is created a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1850 he receives his final honour by being created Viscount Hornblower, of Smallbridge in the County of Kent, and Baron Maidstone, of Boxley in the County of Kent.
John Simpson — Senior Midshipman, former Acting-Lieutenant, HMS Justinian (fights duel with Hornblower) (Mr Midshipman Hornblower)
The science fiction character John Grimes is acknowledged by his author A.
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 A-Z of Offaly in 1837 - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy
Mount Carteret is the property of John Priaulx Armstrong Esq.; the glebe-house, the residence of the Rev. John Burdett; and Claremount, of the late Henry Goode, Esq.
Shrahikerne castle was built, as appears from an inscription on its ruins, in 1588 by John Briscoe, an officer in Queen Elizabeth's army: its name signifies "Kearney of the Shragh," the remains of whose family house, previously to the building of the castle, are also still to be seen.
It is a rectory, vicarage, and perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Meath; the rectory is impropriate in the Rev. J.
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 A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
The living is an impropriate cure, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the rectory is appropriate to the dean and chapter of Leighlin.
This mansion is situated on the bank of the river Blackwater, and is built of freestone found on the estate, in the Elizabethan style, highly embellished with a noble portico, and with elegant architectural details; the demesne comprises 740 acres of fertile and highly cultivated land, and is finely diversified and richly wooded.
The surface is beautifully diversified, and richly embellished with handsome seats, highly cultivated demesnes, luxuriant plantations and wooded eminences, finely contrasting with the rude grandeur of rugged masses of rock rising majestically from the narrow glens, and the loftier elevation of the surrounding mountains.
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 The
Grange Family of Ireland
WILLIAM JOHN, eldest son of Elizabeth (1829) and Samuel Young was born in 1858 and baptized in Ballyclare Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church.
In more recent years a John Hollinger made his way back to the old estate at Grange and succeeded in purchasing one of the original farms which, at the age of 60, he was still labouring in 1953.
John’s wife, Jane, died on 18th January, 1749, aged 76 years and both husband and wife are buried in the old Churchyard at Ennereilly.
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 Articles About Ireland
Shrule Castle, on the Carlow borders, which was the principal seat of the Hartepoles and home of the historian William Lecky was demolished in the 1940s.
John Sabatier, a Huguenot, bought the land in December 1736 and the house was apparently built by 1748, though the interior detailing may not have been finished until a decade later.
There was Old Derrig, near Carlow, once home to John Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, a fine three storey house of the 1740s, Thornberry House, Abbeyleix, The Croker's late 18th century five bay house with a wide fanlit doorway in a projecting bow.
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 Newspaper Abstracts
John F. Maguire, of Cork, Esq., is again adopted as a candidate by the Repeal electors of Dungarvan to oppose Mr.
John D. Fitzgerald Q.C., and candidate for Ennis, to be "an unmitigated Whig," and anti-repealer.
John Hudson, poor rate collector, is to be tried at Waterford assizes for wounding with a pistol shot Mary Bates, a defaulting rate payer.
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 Black Web Viscount Carlow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It was createɗ in 1785 for John Dawson; 2nɗ Viscount Carlow; who haɗ earlier representeɗ Portarlington in the Irish House of Commons
He was the son of William Henry Dawson; who haɗ representeɗ Portarlington anɗ Queen's County in the Irish House of Commons ; anɗ haɗ Ƅeen createɗ Baron Dawson; of Dawson's Court in tn Queen's County; anɗ Viscount Carlow; in the Peerage of Irelanɗ in 1770 anɗ 1776 respectively
Viscount Carlow is useɗ as a courtesy title for the Earl's elɗest son anɗ heir
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 Anthologia Hibernica
George, in Dawson St., lady of rev. Henry, of Soho, co. Carlow 4 Oct. 1793 p.
Dawson, Walter, of Lifanish, co. Monaghan, related to family of Clermont, in Gt.
Hamerton, John, of Dublin, at Philadelphia, America, of the plague 22 Feb 1794 p.
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 James I Descendants News, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
John Christian George Dawnay, 11th Viscount Downe, died at his home at Wykeham Abbey on 15 March.
Charles George Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (b.6 Oct 1965, son and heir of the 7th Earl of Portarlington) married Clare Garside (daughter of Mr and Mrs Rodney Garside) at Galle Fort, Sri Lanka, on 16 March.
Sir (John) Antony Jerningham Murray (son of John Challenger Murray and of his wife, Cecilia Annette Mary Jerningham) died on 20 March.
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 thePeerage.com - Index to Parliament
Paget, Henry, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (1820-1832), Whig 
Petty, John Henry, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne (1786-1802), Whig 
Sturt, Humphrey Napier, 2nd Baron Alington of Crichel (1891-1904) 
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 Lyttelton Letters Annos I
Viscount Chandos, son of Alfred Lyttelton (brother of George’s father) and Edith Sophy Balfour.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890), famously controversial churchman who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1845.
I.99.35] John Carter (late K.S.), John Hayward, and Tim Munby: John Waynflete Carter (1905-1975) of King’s College, Cambridge; John Hayward, scholar and bibliophile; Tim Munby, as stated in the text, Librarian and Fellow of King’s, Cambridge.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 109
William Frederick Danvers, Viscount Hambleden 2nd Smith, b.
William Frederick of Gloucester, Duke of Gloucester 2nd Hanover, b.
William Henry Berkeley, Viscount Portman 2nd Portman, b.
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 Royal News 2002, Section III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mrs Deirdre Brown was born Dierdre Thompson (2nd and yst dau of Hugh Thompson and Anita Carton de Wiart, herself eldest dau of Sir Adrian de Wiart and Countess Friederike Pauline Fugger von Babenhausen).]
Lady Camilla Dempster, née Osborne (daughter of John Francis Godolphin Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds (1901-1963) and of his second wife, née Audrey Williams) was divorced from her husband, the columnist Nigel Dempster, on 28 October.
Henry Winston Spencer-Churchill (second son of John Strange Spencer-Churchill (himself the brother of Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill and son of Lord Randolph Spencer-Churchill (himself the son of 7th Duke of Marlborough))) died on 19 March.
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 Tudor 18
Caroline Margaret Dawson, (Maid-of-Honour to Queen Victoria), + 1912, Md. 1851, Henry William Parnell, 3rd Baron Congleton, * 1809, + 1896.
John George Frederick Hope-Wallace, of Featherstone Castle, * 1839, + 1900, Md. 1867, Mary Frances Bethune, + 1929, d.
of Hector John Graham-Toler, 2nd Earl of Norbury.
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 Tudor 16
Viscount Carlow, A.A.F., * 1907, + 1944 killed on active service, Md. 1937, Peggy Cambie, + 1963, d.
John Leslie, Sir, 2nd Bt., C.B.E., * 1857, + 1944, Md. 1884, Leonie Blanche Jerome, + 1943 (sister of Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill), d.
John Oliver Julian Delmar-Morgan, * 1934, Md. 1962, Penelope Jane Woodhouse, d.
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 thePeerage.com - Index to Justices of the Peace
Crichton-Stuart, John, 6th Marquess of the County of Bute 
Ashton, Thomas Henry Raymond, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde (1944) 
Nevill, Reginald William Bransby, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny (1880) 
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 Illustrated London News 1890
Viscount Franfort de Montmorency - Sir William Dunbar Baronet of Moehrum - Sir Paul William Molesworth at The Tower, Newquay - The Right Hon.
John Edward Venables Vernon of Clontarf Castle, Dublin - The Venerable Samuel Moore Kyle formerly Archdeacon of Cork at his Residence 37 Upper Fitzwilliam Street Dublin
Charles Reginald Lindley Wood elder son of Viscount Halifax aged 20 - - - Rev David Duff Professor of the United Presbyterian Theological Hall Edinburgh - - - William John MCarthy Formerly Rigistrar General of Ceylon - - - Sophia Ann, Sister of the Late Sir charles Wheatstone - - - Lieut.
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 Battle of Alma, 20th Sept 1854 - 23rd Nov 1854
Lieut J. Viscount FITZGIBBON and Cornet G. CLOWES, Killed [doubtful], Lieut D. CLUTTERBUCK and Adjutant Edward SWAGER wounded slight.
Wounded, Privates, John SHEPHERD severe, James ROBINSON slight, Patrick TYNNE slight, Thomas KIRK slight, John FORD slight.
Sgt Frederick PEAKE dangerous, Privates, John BROOKES, John ETTERIDGE, John KEAN, Joseph MOORE, Henry PELGER, Joseph RHODES, Richard ROWLEY, William SEWELL, Gorge WILLIAMS dangerous, George WILDE slight.
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