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190 BLAYNEY Hope, and at the capitulation of Buenos Ayres, he was sent to Cadiz in July 1 8 10 as Major Gen. In making a descent on Malaga with a mixed force of Spaniards, Poles, Germans, i^c., he was taken prisoner,(^) and not released till 18 14. He was M.P. for Old Sarum, 1806-07. In 1 8 14 he was made Lieut. Gen., but saw no further service. He w., 5 July 1796, at Caledon House, Dublin, Mabella, ist da. of James (Alex- ander), 1st Earl of Caledon [I.], by Anne, da. of James Crawfurd. He d. 8 Apr. 1834, suddenly, at Bilton's Hotel, Sackville Str., Dublin, and was bur. at Castle Blayney, aged (y-;)^. Will pr. in London May 1835. His widow, who was b. 7 Aug. 1775, d. 4 Mar. 1854, at Kingstown, near Dublin, aged 78. XII. 1834 12. Cadwallader Davis (Blayney), Lord Blayney, to Baron of Monaghan [I.], only s. and h., /^. 19 Dec. 1874. 1802, in Dover Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq.; M.P. (Conser- vative) for CO. Monaghan 1830-34. Rep. Peer [I.] 1841 to 1874. He d. unm., 18 Jan. 1874, at St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly, and was bur. at Kensal Green, aged 71, when his Peerage in all probability h^- came extinct. Will pr. 3 Feb. 1874, under ;/^2 5,000. Family Estates. — In 1853 the Castle Blayney estate was purchased by Henry Thomas Hope, of Deepdene, Surrey, from the last Lord, whose representatives, however, in 1883 still possessed 2,074 acres in Tipperary, Antrim and Midx., worth ;£2,322 a year. BLESINGTON or BLESSINGTON VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. MuRRouGH Boyle, s. and h. ap. of Michael , , B., Archbishop of Armagh (cousin-german of Richard, '■^' 1st Earl of Cork. [I.]), by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Dermod (O'Brien), 5th Lord Inchiquin [I.], was b. 1648, in Cork; matric. at Trin. Coll. Dublin, as a Fellow Commoner, 18 Aug. 1662; M.P. for Kilmallock, 1665-66. He was cr., 23 Aug. 1673, BARON BOYLE and VISCOUNT BLESINGTON, co. Wicklow [I.], with a spec. rem. to the heirs male of the body of his father. App. P.C. [I.] June 1675. Governor of Limerick, and Constable of Limerick Castle 1679-92. LL.D. 1682. He was not present in James II's Irish Pari, in May 1689. C") Lord Justice [I.] 1696. (^) A Commissioner of the Great Seal [I.] 21 Dec. 1697. He sue. his father (who d. in his 93rd year) 10 Dec. 1702. He m., istly, Mary, da. of John Parker, Archbishop of Dublin, by Mary, da. and h. of Thomas Clarke, of Fermoyle, co. Longford. She d. (*) His Narrative of a forced journey through Spain and France as a Prisoner of War in the years 1810 to 1814, is a work of considerable merit, as illustrating the then manner of life in Spain. (^) For a list of peers present in, and absent from, this Pari., see vol. iii, Appendix D. ('^) He only held this office for a fortnight, and was never sworn, having been elected by a faction in the Council during the illness of the Lord Deputy Capel. V.G.