POPE OF BELTURBET.
i.e., "Pope of Belturbet," Barony [I.] (Pope) cr. 1628 with the Earldom of Downe [I.], which see; ex. 166(illegible text).
PORCHESTER OF HIGH CLERE.
i.e., Porchetser of High Clere, co. Southampton," Barony (Herbert) cr. 1780; see "Carnarvon " Earldom, cr. 1793.
PORTARLINGTON.
i.e., "Portalington" Barony [I] (Massue-de- Ruvigny), cr. 1692, with the Viscounty of Galway [1]. See "Galway" Earldom [1.] cr. 1697; all becoming extinct in 1720.
Earldom [I.]I. 1785. 1. John (Dawson), Viscount Carlow and Baron Dawson of Dawson's Court [I.], s. and h. of William Henry, 1st Viscount Carlow [1.], by Mary, sister of Joseph, 1st Earl of Dorchester, 1st da. of Joseph Damer, of Came, co. Dorset, was b. 23 Aug. 1744; M.P. [I.] for Portarlington, 1766-68, and for Queen's county 1768-71 and 1776-79; suc. to the peerage [I] 22 Aug. 1779, taking his seat in that month, and was cr., June 1785, EARL OF PORTARLINGTON, in Queen's County [I.], taking his seat 19 July following. He m. 1 Jan. 1778, at St. Geo. Han. Sq., Caroline, da. of John
(Stuart), 3d Earl of Bute [S.], by Mary, suo jure Baroness Mount-Stuart. He d. 25 Nov. 1798, at Auchuacloy, co. Tyrone, aged 54, and was bur. in the church of Emo, in Queen's County. His widow, who was b. May 1750, d. 20 Jan. 1813, and was bur. at Milton. Admon. Feb. 1813.
II. 1798. 2. John Dawson, Earl of Portalington, &c. [I.] s. and h., b. 26 Feb. 1781, styled Viscount Carlow from 1785 till he suc. to the peerage [I.] in 1798; entered the army, serving in Holland (1799), in Hanover (1805), in the Peninsula (1809), and being at the battles of Talavera, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo, in which last he had his horse shot under him; was Col. of the 23rd Dragoons; Aide-de camp to the Prince of Wales. He d. unm. 28 Dec, 1845, in his 65th year, at his lodgings in the Kennington Road, in great poverty. Will pr. Feb. 1846, and again March 1889.
III. 1845. 3. Henry John Reuben (Dawson-Damer), Earl of Portalington, &c. [I.], nephew and h., being s. and h, of the Hon. Henry Dawson-Damer, of Milton Abbey, co. Dorset, by Eliza, da. of Edmund Joshua {[sc|Moriaty}}, Capt. R.N., which Henry (who, on inheriting part of the estates of the family of Damer, took by Royal lic. 14 March 1829 the name of Damer in addition to that of Dawson), was second s. of the first Earl, and d. 27 May 1841, aged 54. He was b. 5 Sep. 1822, and bap. at St. Geo. Han. Sq.; suc. to the peerage [1.] 28 Dec. 1845; Rep. Peer [I.] 1855-89; K.P. 8 Feb. 1879. He m. 2 Sep. 1847, at Wynyard Park, co. Durham, Alexandrina Octavia Maria, da. of Charles William (Vane, formerly Stewart), 3d Marquess of Londonderry [I.], by his second wife, Frances Anne Emily, da. and h. of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2d Bart. She, who was b. 29 July 1823, d. 15 Jan. 1874, aged 50, at Eno Park. He d. s.p., of the gout, 1 March 1889, aged 66, and was bur. in the family vault at Coolbanagher, Will pr. at £28,856.(a)[1]
- ↑ (a) There are some curious directions in this will, e.g., that he should be buried with all the rings he usually wore on his fingers; that his jewelled badge of the order of St. Patrick should be returned to the Queen, with his prayer that she will ordain that no Knight of that order shall wear the badge thereof unless when surmounted with the harp and crown, as on this one and certain others, &c.
