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 58 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. besides a daughter, Anne Dorothea, who m. James Blackwood, Esq., an only son, Thomas Henry, afterwards Thomas Henry Foster-Skeffington, Viscount Feehaed, who m. 29th November, 1810, Harriet {nee SkefHng- ton), Viscountess Masseeeene, only davighter of Chichester, fourth Eael OF Masseeeene, and d. in 1843. The Viscountess d. 2nd January, 1831, leaving issue. Their eldest son, John Skeffington, became Viscount Mas- seeeene, Viscount Feeeaed, and Baeon Oeiel (see Burke's Peerage ; Masseeeene, Viscount). II. William (Eight Eev.), of whom presently. I. Margaret, b. 1737, m. 1759, the Hon. and Eight Eev. Henry Maxwell, D.D., Bishop of Dromore, 10th March, 1765, and of Meath, 15th April, 1766 ; third son of John, first Baron Farnham, of Farnham, co. Cavan, Ireland, and father of John, fifth lord, and of Eev. Henry, sixth Baron Farnham. She d. 16th March, 1792. He d. 7th October, 1798. The Lord Chief Baron m. secondly, 1749, Dorothea, daughter of Thomas Burgh, Esq. of Oldtown, CO. Kildare (see Burke's Landed Gentry, " De Bue&h of Oldtown "), and (?. 3rd April, J 778. His second son, EiQHT Eev. William Fostee, D.D., Bishop of Clogher, Ireland, was consecrated 14th June, 1789, Bishop of Cork and Eoss ; translated to Kilmore, 1790, and to Clogher, 1796 ; h. 1744, m. Catherine Letitia, daughter of Eev. Henry Leslie, D.D., of Ballybay, co. Monaghan, prebendary of Tullycorbet, Clogher, and afterwards prebendary of Tan- dragee, in the Cathedral of Armagh (see Leslie of Ballibat in Burke's Landed Oentry) ; and d. November, 1797, having by her (who d. 1814) had issue, I. John Leslie (Eight Hon.), of Eathe- scar, CO. Louth, M.P. for that county for nearly twenty years, baron of the exchequer, Ireland ; »«. 1814, Hon. Le- titia Vesey-Fitzgerald, daughter of the Eight Hon. James Fitzgerald, P.O., by Catherine, his wife, first Baeoness Fitzgeeald and Veset, and sister of LoED Fitzgeeald and Veset, and d. 1842, having by her (who, upon the death of her brother Henry, third Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, in 1860, in accordance with the will of her brother William, second Lord Fitz- gerald and Vesey, assumed for herself and her issue the surnames of Veset- Fitzgeeald after that of Foster ; and d. 1866) had issue, 1. William Foster- Vesey-Fitzgerald of Moyvane, Newtown Sandes, co Kerry ; Kilmurry MacMahon Kilmihill, co. Clare, and MuUac loe, CO. Louth, J. P., cos. Clare and Kerry, h. 12th July, 1815 educated at Trinity College Dublin (B.A., 1839) ; m. 27th April, 1847, Sarah Anne, only child of Henry Quilter, Esq. of Monken Hadley, co. Middlesex, and has issue, I. John Vesey, barrister-at-law, b. 25th February, 1848 ; edu- cated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. II. William Vesey, b. 25th March, 1850. III. Henry Martin, b. 1st April, 1852. 2. John Foster - Vesey - Fitzgerald (Hon.), J.P., b. in Dublin, 1818 ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; and emigrated to Aus- tralia in 1840. He was twice colonial secretary of Victoria, Australia, acting-governor of Victoria in 1854, the following year was elected to the first legis- lative assembly under the new constitution, and held ofiice as treasurer in the first O'Shanassy ministry in March, 1857, finally leaving the colony for Europe. He m. 1850, Emily, daughter of Eev. John Joseph Fletcher, D.D., of Dunran, co. Wicklow, and has issue, I. John, b. 1864. I. Emily Henrietta Louisa. II. Anna. 3. James Foster- Vesey-Fitzgerald, of Moyriesk, Quin, co. Clare, J. P., cos. Clare and Q-alway, D.L., co. Clare, and high sheriff of Clare, 1868 ; b. 8th May, 1821 ; edu- cated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1842) ; m. 4th December, 1845, Henrietta Louisa, daughter of the late Sir Eoss Mahon, Bart., of Castlegar, co. Galway, by his third wife, the Hon. Maria Geraldine Fitzgerald, daughter of the Eight Hon. James Fitzgerald, of Inoheronan, co. Clare, prime sergeant in Ireland, by Catherine, his wife. Baroness Fitzgerald and Vesey ; and has issue, I. James, B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, barrister-at- law, b. 1846. II. George, captain, Clare Artil- lery, b. 1849. I. Henrietta Mary Emily, m. 1870, George Barrington Godbold, Esq., late captain 27th regiment, and d. 24th December, 1877. II. Geraldine Sophia, m. 1872, Eobert Hume Crowe, Esq. of Toonagh, J. P., co. Clare. 1. Letitia. II. William Henet (Eev.), of whom hereafter. I. Catherine, m. 1805, William Drum- mond-Delap, Esq. II. Anna, ?». Jonas Stawell, Esq. of Old