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 CHARLEMONT 137 da. of Stephen Ludlow, Clerk of the Court of Chancery [I.]. He d. in Dublin, 21 Apr. 1734, and was bur. at Armagh, aged 52. His widow, who was b. 21 Feb. 1703, m., 9 Oct. 1740, Thomas Adderley, of Innishannon, CO. Cork. She d. 20 May 1743, and was bur. at Armagh. Will pr. 1744. VISCOUNTCY [I.] IV. BARONY [I.] VIII. 4, 8, and i. James (Caulfeild), Viscount Charlemont, i^c. [I.], 2nd but ist surv. s. ^ and h., b. in Dublin, 18 Aug. 1728. After a long residence abroad ( 1 746-54) he returned to Ireland, taking his seat in the House of Lords [I.] 7 Oct. 1754, when he began to take part in public affairs. Gov. of co. Armagh EARLDOM [I.] 1 749-92 ; LL.D. Dublin {honorh causa) 1 5 July I. 1761. '755; F-R-S. 29 May 1755; F.S.A. 5 June 1755. Custos Rot. CO. Armagh 1760 till his death. He commanded the levies for the de- fence of Belfast against the French in 1760. On 23 Dec. 1763 he was cr. EARL OF CHARLEMONT,(^) co. Armagh [I.]. In July 1780 he was chosen Commander in Chief of the (then newly embodied) Irish Volunteers, which post he held till their disbandment. He was President of the Volunteer Convention at Dublin (the last summoned) in Nov. 1783, and his personal influence probably prevented violence between that assembly and the Pari. K.P., nom. 5 Feb. and inv. 11 Mar. 1783, being one of the 15 original Knights of that "most illustrious order."('') P.C. [I.] 18 Aug. 1783; President of the Royal Irish Academy on its establishment in 1785 till his death. He »;., 2 July 1768, Mary, da. of Thomas Hickman, of Brickhill, CO. Clare. He d. 4 Aug. 1799, at his house in Dublin, and was bur. at Armagh, aged nearly 7i.('^) Will pr. 1799 in Dublin, and Jan. 18 16 in London. His widow d. Apr. 1 807, at Marino, near Dublin. (^) See preamble to this creation in Lodge, vol. iii, p. 154, and see ante, p. 135, note "a." C") See vol. i, p. 227, note "c." ("=) In 1749 he is described by James Porter as "the worthiest youth I ever knew, as full of good sense as of virtue, abounding with amiable qualities;" an estimate of his character confirmed by Mrs. Delany 10 years later. Mainly through his great influence, the bill of Mr. Flood, limiting the duration of Pari, to 8 years, was passed in 1768 in the House of Lords [I.]. In 1775 Sir John Blaquiere writes of him: "In private life amiable and respectable. In public, violent, petulant and waspish." Edmund Burke, 7 Aug. 1785, speaks of him as "the most public spirited, and at the same time the best natured and best bred man in Ireland." In this year he appeared, with some woman, as "The staunch Patriot and the fair Hibernian," in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in Toiun and Country Mag., vol. xvii, p. 625, for which see Appendix B in the last volume of this work. In Sketches of Irish political character, 1799, there is an account of him towards the end of his career. "He is no orator, nor does he affect the character; but generally gives a silent vote, or a vote accompanied with very few words. He is always attended to with the highest respect, being allowed by all to be a man of sound sense and ex- 18