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 254 CLARE Earl of Thomond, ^'c. [I.], ist(^) s. and h., bap. 17 Mar. 1699, at St. Germain-en-Laye. He was enrolled, i July 1703, as a Captain in his father's regt. (being then under 5), and in 1720 was made Col. in chief thereof. He visited England after the peace of 1713, and is said to have obtained a promise of restitution if he conformed to the estab- lished church. He was wounded at the siege of Philippsburg, 12 June 1734-0 In 1735 he was made Inspector Gen. of Infantry and Mare- CHAL DE CamPj or Lieut. Gen. of the King's Armies. By the death of his cousin Henry, 8th Earl of Thomond [I.], 20 Apr. 1741, who left him ;^20,ooo, he became (but for the attainder) heir to that title, which he assumed, being generally henceforth known as " Marechal Comte de Thomond.^'' He was in command at Dettingen in 1 743, at Fontenoy in 1 745 (where the defeat of the English was mainly owing to the valour of the Irish troops), at Landshut in the same year, and finally, 1 1 Oct. 1 746, greatly distinguished himself, under Marshal Saxe, at Raucoux. Knight of the Ste. Esprit of France, 2 Feb. 1746, being inst. at the chapel of Versailles, i Jan. ~i-].{f) Gov. of New Breisach in Alsace; Com. in Chief of the province of Languedoc. He ;«. (late in life) 1755, Marie Genevieve Louise, da. of Francois (Gauthier), Marquis of Chiffreville, in Normandy. He d. 9 Sep. 1761, at Montpelier, aged 62. ('^) Admon., as the "Rt. Hon. Charles O'Brien, late Mareschal of France," i^c, 28 Jan. 1763. His widow d. at Paris, 6 Apr. 1763, aged 26. VII. 1 76 1 7. Charles O'Brien, who, but for the attainder, to was Earl of Thomond [I. 1543], Viscount Clare 1774. [I. 1662], Baron Ibrackan [I. 1552], and Baron Moyarta [I. 1662], only s. and h., b. in Paris 1757. He d. unm., aged 17, at Paris, 29 Dec. 1774,0 when all his honours, which were already under attainder, became extinct.(^ i.e. "Clare" Viscountcy [I.] {Nugent), cr. 1767; See "Nugent," (^) His yr. br., Henry, was h. at St. Germain 14, and hap. there 15 Feb. 1701. V.G. C") In this siege his maternal uncle, Field Marshal the Duke of Berwick (whose 2nd wife was Anne Bulkeley) was slain. ("=) His uncle James (Fitzjames), Duke of Berwick (above referred to), had been similarly honoured, 3 June 1724, as also, i Jan. 1776, Arthur Dillon, Archbishop of Narbonne, br. of the loth and 11th Viscounts Dillon, and on 27 Nov. 1815, the famous Duke of Wellington ; these four being, apparently, the only Englishmen received into that order. (<*) Mrs. Delany calls him "a gay flattering audacious Frenchman," and adds that "he was thought an Adonis by a set of ladies, but in my eyes he was most despicable, and excessi ely vain of his person, and silly." V.G. (') The date and place are sometimes given as 21 July 1774, in Dover Street. (') His only sister, Antoinette Charlotte Marie Septimanie, b. in Paris 1758, m. the Due do Clioiseul-Praslin, and had issue.