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 328 CLONBROCK (Ch. Ch.) 2 1 Mar. 1825, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830. Rep. Peer [I.], 1838 (Conservative). Lord Lieut, of co. Galway 1874-92. He w., 15 June 1830, at Cornbury, Oxon, Caroline Elizabeth, ist da. of Francis Almeric (Spencer), ist Baron Churchill of Whichwood, by Frances, da. of Augustus Henry (Fitzroy), 3rd Duke of Grafton. She, who was b. 28 June 1805, d. 17 Dec. 1864, in her 60th year, at Clonbrock, and was bur. at Ahascragh, co. Galway. He d. 4 Dec. 1 893, aged 86, at Clonbrock, and was bur. at Ahascragh afsd. IV. 1893. 4. Luke Gerald (Dillon), Baron Clonbrock [L 1790], 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 10 Mar., and bap. 17 Apr. 1834, at Ahascragh; ed. at Eton, and at Balliol Coll. Oxford, 2nd class in Law and Mod. History; second Sec. at Vienna, 1862; Sheriff of co. Galway 1865; Private Sec. to the Viceroy of Ireland, 1866-68 and 1874-76; Lord Lieut, of co. Galway 1892; Rep. Peer [I.], 1895 (Conservative); P.C. [I.] 10 Feb. 1898. K.P. 29 Aug. 1900. He m., 18 July 1866, at Ros- common, Augusta Caroline, only da. of Edward (Crofton), Baron Crofton OF Mote [I.], by Georgiana, da. of Henry William (Paget), ist Marquess of Anglesey. She was ^.16 Oct. 1839. [Robert Edward Dillon, only s. and h. ap., b. 21 May 1869.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 29,550 acres, co. Galway, worth ;^i 1,873 ^ year. Principal Residence. — Clonbrock, near Ahascragh, CO. Galway. CLONCURRY BARONY [I.] I. Nicholas Lawless, ist s. of Robert L., of the city of Dublin (who d. 16 Mar. I779),('') by Mary, da. of I. 1789. Dominick Hadsor, of Dublin, merchant, was b. 3 Dec. 1733; "bred a Catholic,"(^) and was "engaged in com- merce. "C*) He conformed to the established church and returned to Ireland from Galleville, in Normandy, being of Abington, co. Limerick. He was cr. a Baronet [I.] 6 Aug. 1776. M.P. for Lifford, 1776-89. (*) " A resident of Dublin [who] acquired a considerable fortune in the woollen manufacture." See Owen and Debrett's Peerage, 1790, vol. iii, p. 430, and Sir Egerton Brydges' Biographical Peerage, 181 7, vol. iv, p. 365. The ennobling of one engaged in trade, somewhat scandalised Dublin Society. His Lordship is said to have found the following verse (attributed to Miss de Burgh) in his box at a theatre where "Don Quixote" (and the scene in which Sancho Panza is "tossed") was to be represented: — " Cloncurry, Cloncurry, don't be in a hurry, To see them toss up the poor squire; Tho' high he must go, yet we very well know. Tour blankets have tossed you much higher."