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110 BELLOMONT his Peerage honours became extinct.{^) Will pr. 1802, Prerog. Ct. [I-J-O His widow, who was b. 15 Mar. 1751, d. 8 Apr. 18 18, at Penzance, Cornwall. M.I. there. Will pr. July 1818. [Charles Coote, styled Viscount Coote, or Lord Coloony, only s. and h. ap. He d. v. p., young and unm. 1786.] BELMONT See "Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore in the East Indies and OF Belmont, Kent," Barony {Harris)^ cr. 18 15. BELMORE BARONY [I.] I. Armar Lowry-Corry, of Castle Coole, co. , n Fermanagh, 3rd, but ist surv. s. and h. of Galbraith ' ■ LowRY, afterwards Lowry-Corry, of Ahenis in that VI«;rnTTTsrTrY n 1 co.,(M.P. for co. Tyrone 1748-68) by Sarah, 2nd sister L ■-' and coh. of Col. Leshe Corry, of Castle Coole afsd., I n and da. of John Corry, was b. 7 Apr. 1740. M.P. ' ^' for CO. Tyrone 1768-81 ; J«c. his father 28 Dec. 1769; FART TiniVI n ^ Sheriff of Tyrone that year, and of co. Fermanagh, L ■-' 1779- He sue. to the estate of the Corry family, at y Castle Coole, in 1774, when he assumed the name '" of Corry in addition to that of Lowry, and on 6 Jan. 1 78 1, was cr. BARON BELMORE OF CASTLE COOLE, co. Fermanagh [I.], taking his seat as such 4 Feb. 1782. On 6 Dec. 1789 he was cr. if) His illegit. s., the abovenamed Charles Coote, of Donnybrook, h. 1765, inherited the Baronetcy under the spec. rem. in the patent of 1774 abovenamed. () See an account of his will in Complete Baronetage, vol. v, p. 169, note (b). In The Abbey of Kilkhampton, a rather scandalous account of the aristocracy, which had a great vogue in its day, by Sir Herbert Croft, 1780, pp. 50-51, regret is expressed that his virtues had not " kept Pace with his Comliness or his Bravery." In 1786, he and some woman appear as "The Hibernian Seducer and the Maid of Sensibility," in the tete-a-tete portraits in Town is' Country Mag., vol. xviii, p. 457. See Appendix B in the last volume. From a letter of the Marquess of Buckingham (then Lord Lieut. [I.]), 13 May 1789, in which he is spoken of as "that madman," it appears that he was then separated from his wife, and that the King had desired him to take her back to his house. "A man of gallantry and high spirits; he fought a duel with the present Marquis Townshend [2 Feb. 1773], in which he was badly wounded. His Lordship is possessed of a strong mind, some reading and much obser- vation: he opposes the Union, although a member of the Privy Council. As a speaker he is of little consideration; his manner is disgustingly pompous. . . . His Lordship publishes his own speeches!" {Sketches of Irish Political Character, 1799). One of his "gallantries " appears to have been the seduction of a respectable tradesman's daughter under cover of a sham marriage, his servant performing the service disguised as a parson. In the duel referred to above he received a severe bullet wound in the groin. V.G.