Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy PC (Ire)

Privy Council of Ireland

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 (7 February 1745 – 5 June 1798) was an Irish landowner and politician.

He was the son of Charles Gardiner

Charles Gardiner

Charles Gardiner was an Irish landowner and politician.He was the son of Luke Gardiner and his wife Anne, daughter of Alexander Stewart and granddaughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy. On 20 March 1741 he married Florinda, daughter of Robert Norman.From 1742 to 1760 he represented...

 by his wife Florinda, daughter of Robert Norman. His sister Anne

Anne Trench, Countess of Clancarty

Anne Trench , Countess of Clancarty was born in Dublin, Ireland to Charles Gardiner and Florinda Norman. On 30 October 1762 she married William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, son of Richard Trench and Frances Power.-Family:Anne and William had nineteen children:#Frances Trench Anne...

 later became Countess of Clancarty

Earl of Clancarty

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. On 3 July 1773 he married Elizabeth, daughter of William Montgomery, an MP

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 for Ballynakill

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 and later a Baronet

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. Their children included a son, Charles John

Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington

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, and a daughter Margaret, who later became Countess of Donoughmore

Earl of Donoughmore

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From 1773 to 1789 he represented Dublin County

Dublin County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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 in the Irish House of Commons

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. He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council on 29 December 1780 and created Baron Mountjoy

Baron Mountjoy

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 on 19 September 1789 and Viscount Mountjoy

Viscount Mountjoy

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 on 30 September 1795, both in the Peerage of Ireland

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Lord Mountjoy was killed in action

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 at the age of 53, leading his regiment at the Battle of New Ross

Battle of New Ross (1798)

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. He was succeeded by his son Charles, who was later created Earl of Blessington

Earl of Blessington

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