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, afterwards Earl of Shelburne, was born on the 13th of May 1737. He has left the following account of his own early life:

"I was born in Dublin in the house of, then Bishop of Kilmore, afterwards Archbishop of Tuam, in Bride Street, Dublin, who married my mother's sister. I spent the four first years of my life in the remotest part of the south of Ireland, under the government of an old grandfather who reigned, or rather tyrannised, equally over his own family and the neighbouring country, as if it was his family, in the same manner as I suppose his ancestors, Lords of Kerry, had done for generations since the time of Henry II., who granted to our family 100,000 acres in those remote parts in consideration of Rh