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LIMERICK. 83 [I.], 1 70fi ; Clerk of tlio C'mwn and Hanaper ri.], 179" ;(*) P.C. fl.] ; wasrr., 29 Dee. I860, VISCOUNT LIME RI Civ of the city of Limerick [I.]: Rep. Peer [I.] (one of the 28 originally elected) 1801-44 ; cr„ 22 Jan. 1803, EARL OF LIMERICK [I.], and n: a Peer of the United Kingdom.,') II Aug. 1815, as BARON FOXFORl) OP STACK POLK COURT. « Clare He >»., 29 Jan. 1783, Mary Alice, only da. and h. nt Henry UHMSBY, of Clogban, CO. Mayo, by Mary, sister and h. of Sir Henry Harts- tonge, Bart. [L], of Rrnff. co. Limerick." He (/. 7 Dec. 1844, in his S7th year, at Southill Park, near Bracknell, lierks, and was bur. in Limerick cathedral.; 1 -') Will dat. 29 July 1840, pr. 12 Feb. 1845. His widow d. Li June 1S50, aged 87, in Mansfield street, Marylebuiie, and was bur. with him. Will dat. 16 June 1848, pr. 21 Oct. 1850. [Henry HarstoriRe Pery, xtijled (since 1803) Lord Glextworth, s. and h. ap., 4. 26 May 1789. He m., 11 May 1S08, Annabella Tenison, 2d da. of Tenison HOWARDS, of Old Court, CO. Wicklow, by Charity, da. of John Harrington, of Queen's county. He rf. v.p. 7 Aug. 1884, aged 45, at Killaloe.f' 1 ) His widow d. at 79 Chester square, 17 Sep. 1868, aged 77-1 [EnMoxp Henry Pert, ait/led (since 1S.s4) Viscouxt(°) Glentwortii, grandson and h. ap., being s. and h. of H. H. Perv, styled Lord Glentworth, aud Annabella, his wife, both aboven noted. He was b. 3 March 1809. He m., 8 Oct. 1836, Eva Maria, 2d da. of Henry Villkrols, of Marhain House, co. Norfolk. He d. s.p., ten mouths before his grandfather, 16 Feb. 1844, in Manchester square, aged 35. Will pr. March 1841. His widow m. 29 Dec. 1817, at St. John's, Paddington, Hugh Smith Baillie. of Redcastle, Rossshire, Col. Royal Horse Guards, and was living 1892.] IV. 1844. 0. William Tenison (Perv), Eaul of Limerick, &c [I.], also Baron Foxiord ok Stackpole Court, grandson and h., being 2d but 1st surv. s. aud h. of H, H. Perv, sti/led Lord Glentworth, and Annabella, his wife, both abovenamed. He was b. 19 Oct. 1812, at Limerick House, in Limerick : was sometime a Magistrate and Superintendant of Agriculture in Norfolk Island, New South Wales : stifled Lord Glentworth from Hi Feb. to 7 Dec. 1844, when he sue. his grandfather in the peerage. He m. firstly, 16 April 1S3S, Susanna, da. of William SHEAFFK, Surveyor of the excise at Mallow, in Ireland (br. of Sir Roger Hale Sheakee, Bart., so <t. 1813), by Mary, da. of (— ,) Wright. She, impetuous and frequently efficient. He was prouder than he had a right to be and bore no similitude to his illustrious uncle [Edmund Sexton Pery, Speaker of the Irish Mouse of Commons, 1771 to 1785, who. in 1785. was ei: a Peer [I.] as Viscount Pery of Newtown Pery] : he had a sharp, quick, active intellect ; he generally guessed right in his politics and if he chanced to be wrong he expertly patched up the failure of his judgment by his skill and perseverance. Lord Limerick took a leading part in 1799 against that" Constitution which his uncle and benefactor had so nobly helped to establish." (••') On the abolition of which office he received a pension of £S16 for his life. (}>) So that for 29 years, i.e., from 1815 to his death, he sat in the House of Lords in two capacities, the Irish Rep. Peers being funlike those of Scotland] elected for ( c ) His strong Tory politics and absenteeism had rendered him so unpopular in his native city that it was with great difficulty his body was safely conveyed over the bridge to its burial, a large mob endeavouring to throw it over into the river. ',*') The " Animal lien." tor LS34 speaks of him as "a clever but imprudent young nobleman, gifted by nature with great talents," who " fell a victim to a career of reckless indulgence " and who spent " the greatest part of his time, after he became of age, in prison." f c ) The designation of " Yiscmint" in combination with " (llentttnrth (which is a " U i-ni'.ii.") is an anomalous and absurd assumption. It was, however, undoubtedly used bv the grandson (and possibly by the son and other descendants) of the 1st Earl, who in his will speaks of his grandson as " commonly called Lord Viscount Glent- worth." On this principle we ought to have an Karl of Mandeville and an Marl of Castlereagh as the eldest sons of the Duke of Manchester aud the Marquess of Londonderry respectively, each of these noblemen having on Earldom (tho' not one of the name above indicated) vested in them. See vol. i, p. 316, note "b" [sub " Belmore"), for some remarks on courtesy titles. (1*