Baron Clermont
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Peerage of Ireland
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and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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. All three creations are extinct. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 26 May 1770 for William Fortescue
William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont KP was an Irish peer and politician.He served as High Sheriff of Louth in 1746. He became Earl of Clermont in 1777 and was appointed a Knight Founder of the Order of St Patrick on 30 March 1795...
, who was later made Viscount and Earl of Clermont. For more information on this creation see Viscount Clermont, a title which became extinct in 1829. The second creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 11 February 1852 when Thomas Clermont
Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont
Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont , was an Irish Whig politician.-Background and education:Fortescue was the son of Chichester Fortescue, of Dromisken, County Louth, by Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade Hobson, a barrister, of Muchridge House, County Cork. Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue,...
, formerly Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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for Louth
County Louth (UK Parliament constituency)
County Louth, otherwise known as Louth County or Louth, is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
, was made Baron Clermont, of Dromisken in the County of Louth, with remainder failing heirs male of his own to his younger brother Chichester Fortescue
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford KP, PC , known as Chichester Fortescue until 1863 and as Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue between 1863 and 1874, Lord Carlingford from 1874 to 1887 and Lord Clermont after 1887, was a British statesman and Liberal...
and the heirs male of his body.
Thomas Fortescue was the son of Chichester Fortescue
Chichester Fortescue (1777–1826)
Chichester Fortescue briefly served as an Irish Member of Parliament.He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Hillsborough in January 1800 but lost his seat when the Parliament of Ireland was abolished by the Act of Union 1800.He was son of Thomas Fortescue and father of Thomas Fortescue,...
, member of the Irish House of Commons
Irish House of Commons
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for Hillsborough
Hillsborough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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, son of Thomas Fortescue, member of the Irish Parliament for Trim
Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Trim was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.-1692–1801:...
, son of Chichester Fortescue
Chichester Fortescue (1718–1757)
Chichester Fortescue was an Irish Member of Parliament.He represented Trim in the Irish House of Commons between 1747 and 1757....
, MP for Trim, grandson of Chichester Fortescue, whose brother William Fortescue was the grandfather of the aforementioned William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont KP was an Irish peer and politician.He served as High Sheriff of Louth in 1746. He became Earl of Clermont in 1777 and was appointed a Knight Founder of the Order of St Patrick on 30 March 1795...
(see Viscount Clermont). Chichester Fortescue was the great-grandson of John Fortescue, husband of Susannah, daughter of Sir John Chichester and sister of Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester
Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester
Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester , known between 1596 and 1613 as Sir Arthur Chichester, was an English administrator and soldier, best known as the Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1604 to 1615.- Early life :...
and Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester
Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester
Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester was the younger brother of Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester. He was knighted in 1616, and after his brother's death in 1625 was in his memory ennobled as Viscount Chichester, of Carrickfergus in the County of Antrim, and Baron Chichester, of Belfast in...
, ancestor of the Marquesses of Donegall
Marquess of Donegall
Marquess of Donegall is a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the head of the Chichester family, originally from Devon, England. Sir John Chichester sat as a Member of Parliament and was High Sheriff of Devon in 1557. One of his sons, Sir Arthur Chichester, was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1604...
(hence the common first name of Chichester). In 1866 Lord Clermont was also made Baron Clermont, of Clermont Park in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body.
He died childless in 1887 when the barony of 1866 became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony of 1852 according to the special remainder by his younger brother, Chichester Fortescue, who in 1863 had assumed the additional surname of Parkinson. He was a Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
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politician and had already been raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in his own right as Baron Carlingford, of Carlingford in the County of Louth, on 28 February 1874, with normal remainder to heirs male. Like his elder brother Lord Carlingford was childless and both the baront of Carlingford and barony of Clermont became extinct on his death in 1898.
Sir Chichester Fortescue
Chichester Fortescue (1750–1820)
Sir Chichester Fortescue was an Irish admiral and MP.The son of Chichester Fortescue by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington , he represented Trim in the Irish House of Commons from 1798 to the Act of Union 1800...
, brother of Chichester Fortescue, MP for Trim, was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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and member of the Irish Parliament for Trim.
Barons Clermont; Third creation (1866)
- Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron ClermontThomas Fortescue, 1st Baron ClermontThomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont , was an Irish Whig politician.-Background and education:Fortescue was the son of Chichester Fortescue, of Dromisken, County Louth, by Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade Hobson, a barrister, of Muchridge House, County Cork. Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue,...
(1815–1887) - Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford, 2nd Baron ClermontChichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron CarlingfordChichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford KP, PC , known as Chichester Fortescue until 1863 and as Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue between 1863 and 1874, Lord Carlingford from 1874 to 1887 and Lord Clermont after 1887, was a British statesman and Liberal...
(1823–1898)