Viscount Kilwarden, of Kilwarden in the County of Kildare, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...

. It was created on 29 December 1800 for Arthur Wolfe, 1st Baron Kilwarden

Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden

Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden KC was an Irish peer, politician and judge.Wolfe was born at , near Naas, being the fifth son of John Wolfe and his wife Mary Philpot. Wolfe was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1766...

, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland

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. He had already been created Baron Kilwarden, of Newlands in the County of Dublin, on 3 July 1798, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Furthermore, his wife Anne, daughter of William Ruxton

William Ruxton (1697–1751)

William Ruxton was an Irish landowner and MP from Ardee in County Louth.He sat in the Irish House of Commons as Member for Ardee from 1748 to his death; the other representative of the borough was Robert Parkinson....

 of Ardee, County Louth

County Louth

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, by Mary, daughter of Samuel Gibbons, had in 1795 been raised to the Peerage of Ireland in honour of her husband as Lady Kilwarden, Baroness of Kilteel in the County of Kildare. Lord Kilwarden was murdered in 1803 and was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Viscount. The following year he also succeeded his mother as second Baron Kilwarden of the 1795 creation. All three titles became extinct on his death in 1830.

Viscounts Kilwarden (1800)

• Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden
  Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden
  Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden KC was an Irish peer, politician and judge.Wolfe was born at , near Naas, being the fifth son of John Wolfe and his wife Mary Philpot. Wolfe was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1766...
  
  (1739–1803)
• John Wolfe, 2nd Viscount Kilwarden (1769–1830)

Barons Kilwarden (1795)

• Anne Wolfe, 1st Baroness Kilwarden (d. 1804)
• John Wolfe, 2nd Baron Kilwarden (1769–1830) (had succeeded as Viscount Kilwarden in 1803)