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FITZ-WILL1AM. 383 Family Estates.— These, in 1883, consisted of 22,192 acres in Yorkshire (N.E. and W. ridings), SSI in Northamptonshire, 522 iu Cambridgeshire, 308 in Derbyshire, and 92 in Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire ; also 89,891 acres in co. Wicklow, 1,532 in co. Kildare and 325 co. Wexford. Tutal 115,743 acres worth £13,880 a year. " Lord F. (writing to The Times) calls his Irish property 93 acres less than here stated— the rental £2,6'16 more." See Bateman's " Landowners," 1883. Roughly speaking there are about 92,000 acres in Ireland worth £50,000 a year and 21,000 acres iu England worth £88,000 a year. Principal Residences. Wentworth House, near Rotherham, co. York, and Collatin Park, co. Wicklow. The estate of .Milton Park, near Peterborough, consisting of 23,318 acres in Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire, worth £39,547 a year is not herein included, having been devised by the late Earl, in 1S57, to his 2d surv. son the Hon. George Weutworth- Fitzwilliam, who d. 4 March 1874, aged 56, leaving issue. Earl Fitzwilliam stands 22d iu point of acreage but 6th in point of rental among the 28 noblemen who, in 1SS3, possessed above 100,000 acres in the United Kingdom. See a list of these in vol. ii, p. 51, note "a," sub " Buccleuch." FITZWILLIAM OF METtYON, and OF TIIORNCA.STLE. Viscountcy and l. Sin Thomas Fitz William, of Mount Merrion, co. Barony [I]. Dublin, s. and h. of Sir Richard F. of the same, by Jane, da. of [ — ] Pkkston smc. his father, 5 March 1595, being then 1-1 years of I. 1629. age; was knighted 23 Aug. 1608 ; Sheriti of co. Dubliu, 1609 ; had a grant of 1000 acres of land in the Barony of Over, co. Armagh, on 17 Dec. 1610, and was on 5 Aug. 1629, cr. by letters patent, dat. at Corubury, BARON FITZWILLIAM OF THORNOASTLE and VISCOUNT FITZ WILLIAM OF MERYON [I]. He took his seat 14 July 1631. On 24 Oct. 1641, the day after the breaking out of the rebellion (his services to the Lords Justices [I.], being refused, as being a Papist), he went to England to assist Charles I. He is said to have obtained from that King a privy seal for an English Earldom, dat. 1 May 1645, at Oxford, of which the patent could not then be perfected. He was outlawed in Ireland. He m. 23 Aug. 1005, Margaret, 1st da. of Oliver (I'lunkett), 4th Lord Louth [I.], by his first wife, Frances, da. of Sir Nicholas Bagknaia, Knt. Mareschal of Ireland. II. 1650 ? 2. Oliver (FitzWilliam), Viscount FitzWilliam of MkuyoN, See. [I.], 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. He fought for the King at Naseby, 1645. He was a Lieut. Gen. under Ormonde and, by a victory at Roscommon, secured the province of Conuaught to the King. On 20 April 1661, he was cr. EARL OF TVRCONNEL [I.], and took his seat (by proxy) iu the House, 9th July 1662. He m. firstly, Dorothy, da. of [— ] Brereton, of Malpas, co. Chester. He m. secondly, Ellen, da. of John (Holles), 1st Earl of Clabe, by Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Stanhope, of Shelford, Notts. He d. s.p., 11 April 1667, at Merrion, and was bur. iu Donnybrooke church, when the Earldom of Tyrconnel [I.], became extinct. M.I. His widow was living 1677. III. 16G7. 3. William (Fitzwilliam), Viscount Fitzwilliam op Meryon, &c. [I.], br. and h. He was Governor of Whitchurch, Salop, and Lieut. Gen. of that county during the civil war. He m. Mary, sister of Thomas Luttrell, of Ranaghan, co. Westmeath (who d. s.p. 1673) aud da. of Thomas Luttrell, of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin, by his second wife, Alison (m, in 1616), da. of Nicholas (St. Lawrence), Lord Howth [I]. rV. 1670? 4. Thomas (Fitzwilliam), Viscount Fitzwilliam op MBBTOH. &e. [I.], only s. and h. He, in 1673, sue. to the estate of Ranaghan abovenamed. He was T.C. to James II. ; was Col. of a Reg. of Horse ; a Commissioner in tho Treasury, &c. Ho was outlawed 16S9 but subsequently restored. He m. firstly Mary, da. of Sir Philip Stapleton, of Wighill, co. York. He m. secondly Elisabeth, 2d da. of George Pitt, of Strathfieldsaye, Hants, by Jane (Dow. Lady Chandos), 1st da. of John (Savaob), Earl Riveus. He d. 20 Feb. 1704. Will pr. April 1705.