George Evans, 1st Baron Carbery PC (Ire)

Privy Council of Ireland

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 (ca. 1680 – 28 August 1749) was an Irish

Ireland

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 politician and peer.

Evans was the son of George Evans, of Bulgaddon Hall, County Limerick

County Limerick

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 (1655 - May 1720) and his wife (m. 1679) Mary (née Eyre) (1659 -). He was elected to the Irish House of Commons

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 for Limerick County

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 in 1707, a seat he held until 1715. Evans's father had earlier been a strong supporter of William

William III of England

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 and Mary

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 but declined King George I's

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 offer of a peerage. However, the peerage was accepted by his son, who in 1715 was raised to the Peerage of Ireland

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 as Baron Carbery, of Carbery in the County of Cork, with remainder to the male issue of his father. He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council the same year. He later represented Westbury

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 in the British House of Commons

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 from 1715 to 1722 and again from 1724 to 1727.

Lord Carbery married Anne, daughter of William Stafford, in 1703. He died in August 1749 and was succeeded by his son George. Lady Carbery died in 1757.