Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Caulfeild, Toby (d.1642)

1384083Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09 — Caulfeild, Toby (d.1642)1887Thomas Finlayson Henderson

CAULFEILD, TOBY or TOBIAS, third Baron Charlemont (d. 1642), was the eldest son of Sir William Caulfeild, second baron, and Mary, daughter of Sir John King, knight (ancestor to the Earl of Kingston). In 1639 he was returned to parliament for the county of Tyrone. At the time of the rebellion of 1641 he succeeded his father as governor of Fort Charlemont. On 22 Oct. 1641 Sir Phelim O'Neill [q. v.] went to dine with him, and was courteously received; but meantime O'Neill's followers surprised Charlemont. After being retained fifteen weeks a prisoner in Charlemont, he was removed to O'Neill's castle at Kinard, on entering which he was shot dead by Edmund Boy O'Hugh, foster-brother to O'Neill, 1 March 1642. He was succeeded by his brother Robert, who died a few months later.

[Lodge's Irish Peerage (edit. 1789), iii. 140–2.]

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