Earl of Egmont was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1733 for John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval. It became extinct with the death of the twelfth earl in 2011.
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,, styled Viscount Cobham from birth until 1813, Earl Temple between 1813 and 1822 and Marquess of Chandos between 1822 and 1839, was a British Tory politician. He served as Lord Privy Seal between 1841 and 1842.
Kildorrery is a village in north County Cork, Ireland. It lies at the crossroads of the N73 road from Mallow to Mitchelstown and the R512 from Kilmallock to Fermoy. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. Kildorrery is part of the Cork East Dáil constituency.
Mitchelstown Castle, the former home of the Anglo Irish Earls of Kingston, was located in the north County Cork town of Mitchelstown in Ireland.
The High Sheriff of Monaghan was the British monarch's representative in County Monaghan, a territory known as his bailiwick. Selected from three nominated people, he held his office for the duration of a year. He had judicial, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.
Newton Hall is an 18th-century country house at Newton on the Moor, near Alnwick, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
George Moore (1811–1871) was a landowner who became the High Sheriff of Derbyshire and built Appleby Hall in Leicestershire.
Sandleford is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Greenham, in the West Berkshire district, in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. It is located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the town of Newbury.
The Hyde family of Denchworth in the English county of Berkshire were a landed family from at least the Norman period to the late modern era. They were chiefly seated at various places in Berkshire, but there were major branches in County Cork in Ireland. Members have included an abbot, a Knight of the Bath and a number of MPs and high sheriffs. Douglas Hyde of County Roscommon, became the first President of Ireland in 1938. They are not related to the noble Hyde family of Wiltshire and Cheshire.
John Gwynn was an Irish Syriacist. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin from 1888 to 1907.
Kilronan Castle, previously known as Castle Tenison, is a large country house standing in 40 acres (16 ha) of parkland on the shore of Lough Meelagh in County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the village of Ballyfarnon.
Clonmoyle House was a country house in the townland of Clonmoyle East, situated 3.9 km (2.4 mi) south-east of Aghabullogue village and 3.4 km (2.1 mi) north-east of Coachford village. The house and demesne was one of several eighteenth and nineteenth century estates built in mid-Cork along the valley of the River Lee and its tributaries.
Wrentham Hall was a large now-demolished Manor House to the north-west of the village of Wrentham, Suffolk, England and which stood on what is now Blackmoor Farm.
The Grange formerly known as the Convent of the Holy Cross was a Roman Catholic country house and conventual estate at the village of Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
Lt.-Col. Richard Magenis was an Anglo-Irish Unionist politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons and British House of Commons for Enniskillen.
Robert Day (1746–1841) was an Irish politician, barrister and judge, who was a highly respected figure throughout his very long life. Even Daniel O'Connell, who thought him a poor lawyer and an equally poor judge, had high personal regard for him.
Hume Babington was a Church of Ireland clergyman, serving as the rector at Moviddy, County Cork, for 53 years from 1833 to 1886, and a proponent of secular education in Ireland.
Hamilton Geale (1814–1909) was an Irish politician, judge, barrister, and author. As a member of the landed gentry who owned some 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) in Ireland, Geale served on the Irish Council and the Imperial Parliament. He was also a deputy judge with the Bristol County and Marylebone County courts in England and a justice of the peace for County Limerick in Ireland.
Frances Emilia Crofton née Dunn, known professionally as Mrs William Crofton, was an Anglo-Irish landscape painter of the picturesque style who flourished in the mid-19th century. In 1854 she published Eight Views, a folio edition of lithograph prints of her original landscape paintings of Britain and Ireland, to be sold for charitable purposes. These sets of eight prints were purchased by various bishops, members of the aristocracy and others, and some are now in public collections. She married Anglo-Irish landowner William Crofton, a naval surgeon and justice of the peace, and lived for the rest of her life in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and at Lakefield, a mansion with a large estate in County Leitrim, Ireland.
