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 362 COMPLETE PEERAGE avonmore P.C. [1.] 13 July 1782 ; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer [I.] 1783- 1805. On 15 June 1795 he was cr. LORD YELVERTON, BARON AVONMORE, CO. Cork [L]. On 29 Dec. 1800 (") he was cr. VIS- COUNT AVONMORE of Derry Island, co. Tipperary [I.]. He m. (Lie. Prerog. Ct. [L] 14 July 1761), July 1761, Mary, da. and coh. of William Nugent, (5th s. of James N., of Clonlost, co. Westmeath) by Ursula, da. of Richard Aglionby, of Carlisle. She, who was ^.28 Mar. 1733, d. 1802. He d. 19 Aug. 1805, at Forthfield, near Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, aged 69. Will pr. 1 806, Prerog. Ct. [L]. n. 1805. 2. William Charles (Yelverton), Viscount Avon- more, ^c. [I.], s. and h., b. 5 Apr. 1762. Principal Registrar of the High Court of Chancery [I.]. He m., i Sep. 1787, by spec, lie, in St. James's Place, in the parish of St. James's, Westm. (his bride being then a minor), Mary, ist da. of John Reade, of East Cams, Hants. He ^.28 Nov. 18 14, at Clythe, co. Monmouth, aged 52. Will pr. July 1 815. His widow d. 30 May 1834. in. 1 8 14. 3. Barry John (Yelverton), Viscount Avonmore, fcfc. [I.], s. and h., b. 21 Feb. 1790. He w., istly, 18 11, Jane, 2nd da. of Thomas Boothe, of Dublin and Whitehaven. She d. Oct. 1 82 1. He ;«., 2ndly, i Aug. 1822, Cecilia, ist da. of Charles O'Keefe, of Hollybrooke Park, co. Tipperary, one of the Registrars of the Court of Chancery [I.]. He d'. 24 Oct. 1870, at Dublin, in his 8 ist year. His widow d. I Feb. 1876, at Tritonville, co. Dublin, aged 71. IV. 1870. 4. William Charles (Yelverton), Viscount Avon- more, £ffc. [I.], 3rd ('') but ist surv. s. and h., being ist s. by 2nd wife, b. 27 Sep. 1824. Major, R.A. Served in the Crimea. cloudy, his setting obscure, " yet " few men possessed so much talent, so much heart, or so much weakness. " G.E.C. " Mr Yelverton is said to have been born of obscure and poor parentage, being the son of a weaver in Newmarket in the county of Cork... [a story without foundation]. The leading feature of his eloquence is energetic force. His voice is full and deep, his pronunciation slow and solemn ; his arrangement masterly ; his knowledge great and diversified ; his manner animated and impressive. He is allowed to be a good and a learned judge ; but he has one fault.., he is extremely irritable. " [Sketches of Irish political Character 1799.) " One of the most accomplished and merciful men on the Irish Bench. After his death Curran finely said of him, that he could on his death bed have had no more selfish wish than that justice should be administered to him, in the world to come, in the same spirit with which he distributed it in this. " (Lecky, Hist, of England in the Eighteenth Cent., vol. vii, p. 53). " He was a great lawyer, an admirable speaker, a statesman of sound and moderate judgment, a man of eminent accomplishments, and of a singularly sweet, simple, and even childlike nature, but... his character had been broken down by extravagance and debt. " [Idem, vol. viii, p. 467.) V.G. C) For particulars of the creations and promotions in the Irish peerage at the time of the Union, and remarks thereon, see Appendix H in volume iii. V.G. C") Of his two elder brothers of the half blood (i) Barry Charles Y., h. 21 Nov. 1814, in Dublin, Lieut. 79th Foot, 1833, d. unm. and v.p., 11 Jan. 1853, aged 38,