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 326 FERMANAGH— FERMOY. II. 1717. 2. Rali-h (Versby), Viscount Fermanagh, &c. [I.], ouly surv. s. and h., bv first wife ; b. .it Little Chelsea aud bap. IS March 16S3, at Kensington. M.P. for Aniersham, 1717-11, and for Wendover, 1711-52. He was cr. 22 March 1742/3, EARL VERNEY in the province of Leinater [I.] He m. 24 Feb. 1707/8, at St. Giles in the Fields, Midx., Catharine, 1st da. and coheir of Henry PascHall, of Baddow Hall, Essex, by Catharine, da. of Sir Henry Amm, Bart. She d. at Little Chelsea 28 Nov. and was bur. 20 Dec. 17 IS, at Middle Claydou. The Karl d. at Little Chelsea, 1 and was fair. 20 Oct. 1752, at Middle Claydou. 'Will pr. 1752. lit 1752, $. Ralph (Verney). Ears Verse* [1743], Viscount to FERM.VN.UHI and BARON YkiiXKV et BSLT'JRBRT [1 "03 j in Ireland, also 1791, a Baronet [1661], 2d but only snrv. s. and h. male. He was M.P. for Wendover, 1754-01 ; for Carmarthen, 17<il-68, and for Bucks, 1708- 91. He m. 11 Sep. 1710, Mary, da. an 1 h. of Henry II rimixi:, of Egham, co. Surrey, merchant of London and one of the directors of the Bank "f England. She d. a few weeks before him in Curzon street, May Fair, Midx., and was bur. 4 Feb. 1791, at Middle Claydou. Her admon. Feb. 1791. Ho d. s.p. in Curzon street afsd., 31 March, and was bur. 8 April 1791. at Middle Claydou, when all his honours became extinct. "Will dat. 1 Dec. 17SG, pr. 24 May 1791. Barony [I.] Mary Verney -, posthumous ami only child of the Hon. I 1792 John Yeruey, by Mary, da. of Josias Nicholson, of Claphara, co. ^ Surrey (which John was 1st s. and h. ap. of Ralph, 1st Earl Verney lot a and 2d Viscount Fermanagh [LJ but d. s.p.m. and v.p. 3 June lOlW. ]737i aged o S ) i wa3 j. 21 Oct. and bap. 1 Nov. 1737, and, having on the death of her uncle, the 2d Earl Verncy aud 3d Viscount Fermanagh abovenamed, sue. to the family estates, 31 March 1791, was <x. 13 June 1792, BARONESS FERMANAGH [I]. She d. warn. 15 Nov. 1810, aged 73 aud was bur. at Middle Claydon, when the Barony became extinct. Her will dat. IS March 1801, pr. 1810.C 1 ) FERMANAGH OF LISNASKEA. i.e., "Fermanagh of Lisxaskea, co. Fermanagh, "(") Barony (Grichlon), cr. 1876; see "Erne" Earldom [[.], cr. 1789, under the 3d holder thereof. FERMOY. [Observations. This Viscountcy is one of the Irish Peerages by pre- scription, i.e., Peerages, which were rce-yniscl in 1 1S9, by Henry VII, but of the mode of whose creatiou nothing certain is known. See vol. i, preface pp. ii aud iii, and p. 172, note "f," sub "Athenry :" Although its origin is obscure, its position as the second Viscountcy is undoubted and has beeu repeatedly acknowledged. Its possessor in 14S9 was ranked immediately after the Viscount Buttevaut {the Premier Viscount), both of these prescriptive Viscountcies being ranked above the Viscountcy of Gormaustou (cr. by patent in ( u ) She devised Middle Claydon aud all other her estates to hei sister, of the half blood, Catharine (da. of her mother by her 2d husbaud, Richard Calvert) wife of the Rev. Robert Wright. Mrs. Wright took the name of Verney in 1811, and d. s.p, 9 Jan. 1827, aged 82, devising the estates to her husband's family of Calvert. On the death of the Baroness Fermanagh in 1810, the representation of the Verney family devolvod on the descendants of Sir Thomas Cave, Bart., by Margaret, sister of the 2d Viscount, now represented by the Lords Braye. ( b ) This is one of the singular combinations, peculiar to the 19th century, where the name of a county (Fermanagh is not a town, but is a county being so constituted iu 1579), is placed before a towu, on the same style as the creation of " Leicester of llolklmm, &c See p. 209, note "e," under " Erne."