Colclough Baronets
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The Colclough Baronetcy of Tintern Abbey, Co Wexford was created in the baronetage of Ireland on 21 July 1628 for Adam Colclough, High Sheriff of Wexford
High Sheriff of Wexford
The High Sheriff of Wexford was the British Crown’s judicial representative in County Wexford, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Wexford County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial...

 in 1630.
The family seat was Tintern Abbey (County Wexford)
Tintern Abbey (County Wexford)
Tintern Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland.The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in the 13th century by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was...

and its lands, which were granted in 1575 to Anthony Colclough from Staffordshire, an officer in Henry VIII's army, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. After the death of the third baronet, the estate passed to the Leigh-Colclough (formerly Leigh) family.

Colclough Baronets of Tintern Abbey (1628)

  • Sir Adam Colclough, 1st Baronet (c.1590–1637)
  • Sir Caesar Colclough, 2nd Baronet (1624–1684)
  • Sir Caesar Colclough, 3rd Baronet (c.1650–1687) Baronetcy extinct on his death.
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