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 CLONCURRY 329 On 29 Sep. i789(«) he was cr. BARON CLONCURRY OF CLON- CURRY, CO. Kildare [I.], taking his seat 21 Jan. 1790. He m., 13 Oct. I76i,at St. Peter's, Dublin, Margaret, da. and h. of Valentine Browne, of Dublin, brewer. She, who was I>. 24 Aug. 1748, d. 10 Feb. 1795, •" Upper Merrion Str., Dublin, and was />ur. at Crumlin, co. Dublin. He i/. 28 Aug. 1799, at iVIaretimo, Blackrock, near Dublin, and was bur. at Crumlin afsd. Will pr. 1799. n. 1799- 2 and I. Valentine Browne (Lawless), Baron Cloncurry [L], 2nd but only surv. s. and h., l>. 19 Aug. BARONY [U.K.] 1773, in Merrion Sq., and /mp. at St. Peter's, Dublin; ed. at Trin. Coll. Dublin, B.A., 1792; was a member I. 1831. of "the Society of United Irishmen" (founded in 1 791), opposing the projected Union and all other Government measures; was imprisoned for six weeks in 1798, and again in 1799 for 2 years, on suspicion of treason. He took part in 1821 in defeating a loyal address to George IV proposed to have been sent by the county of Dublin. He was, however, in the next reign, made P.C. [I.] 23 May 1831, and, being a Liberal, was cr., 14 Sep. 1 83 1, BARON CLONCURRY OF CLON- CURRY, co. Kildare [U.K.]. He m., istly, 16 Apr. i 803, at Rome, Elizabeth Georgiana, yst. da. of Lieut. Gen. Charles Morgan, Com. in Chief In the East Indies. This marriage was dissolved by Act of Pari., 26 June 181 IjC") and, four days afterwards, he m., 2ndly, 30 June 1811, at Carnallwey, co. Kildare, Emily, widow of Joseph Leeson, 3rd da. of Archibald Douglas, of Darnock, by Mary, da. of Sir Paul Crosbie, 4th Bart. [S.], of Crosbie Park, CO. Wicklow. She d. 15 June 1 841, at the London Hotel, Albemarle Str. He d. 28 Oct. 1853, aged 80, at Maretimo, afsd.,('=) and was l>ur. at Lyons Castle. (*) For a list of promotions and creations in the Irish peerage at this time see Appendix H to this volume. His peerage was generally regarded as having been paid for in hard cash, and indeed, in 1799 he wrote to the Duke of Portland, "If I have obtained any honours, they have cost me their full value." Nevertheless he continued actively though vainly, to beg for further advancement in the Peerage. " His person has more of the stiffness of a French dancing-master than of the easy disengaged air of a well bred gentleman; and his voice is peculiarly unpleasing, it having a sharp querulous tone grating to the ear, equally destitute of strength or sweetness, melody or compass. . . The great object on which his heart is fixed, next to the accumulation of money, is the attainment of a peerage, and to procure that splendid distinction, he has for some years dedicated himself most assiduously to the service of every administra- tion." {J Review of the Irish House of Commons, I 789, by the Rev. John Scott). His Irish estates are said in 1799 to have been worth £12,000 p. a. For a list of the largest resident Irish landlords at that date, see vol. iv. Appendix C. V.G. C") He obtained ^^20,000 damages, in 1807, against Sir John Piers, Bart., for crim. con. The lady m., andly, June 1819, the Rev. John Sanford, Rector of Nyne- head, Somerset. ("=) According to Carpenter's Peerage for the People, 1849, he was entitled "to a high place on the roll of noble patriots," and was one, who " in his politics has ever 42