Roundell Palmer,1st Earl of Selborne,was an English lawyer and politician. He served twice as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Viscount Clermont,of Clermont in the County of Louth,was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1776 for William Fortescue,1st Baron Clermont,with special remainder in default of male issue of his own to his brother James Fortescue and the heirs male of his body.
Waldegrave is the name of an English family,said to derive from Walgrave in Northamptonshire,who long held the manor of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary,Suffolk.
William John Monson,1st Viscount Oxenbridge PC,known as The Lord Monson between 1862 and 1886,was a British Liberal politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1880 and 1885 and in 1886 under William Ewart Gladstone.
Baron Clermont is a title that has been created three times,twice in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. All three creations are extinct. The first creation,Baron Clermont,of Clermont in the County of Louth,came in the Peerage of Ireland on 26 May 1770 for William Fortescue,who was later made Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont. For more information on this creation see Viscount Clermont,a title which became extinct in 1829. The second creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 11 February 1852 when Thomas Fortescue,formerly Member of Parliament for Louth,was made Baron Clermont,of Dromisken in the County of Louth,with special remainder failing heirs male of his own to his younger brother Chichester Fortescue and the heirs male of his body.
The title of Earl of Carlingford was created in the Peerage of Ireland for Theobald Taaffe. The Earl bore the subsidiary titles Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote (1628).
William Monsell,1st Baron Emly,PC was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Liberal politician. He held a number of ministerial positions between 1852 and 1873,notably as President of the Board of Health in 1857 and as Postmaster General between 1871 and 1873.
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen,1st Baron Brabourne,known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen,was a British Liberal and later Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under Lord Russell in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and was also Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874. In 1880 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brabourne.
Edward Heneage,1st Baron Heneage,,was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician. He was briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone between February and April 1886,when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal Unionists.
Arthur Chichester,1st Baron Chichester,of Carrickfergus in Ireland,was an English administrator and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1605 to 1616. He was instrumental in the development and expansion of Belfast,now Northern Ireland's capital. Several streets are named in honour of himself and his nephew and heir Arthur Chichester,1st Earl of Donegall,including Chichester Street and the adjoining Donegall Place,site of the Belfast City Hall.
Sir Arthur Nonus Birch KCMG was Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon,Colonial Secretary for Ceylon and acting Lieutenant Governor of Penang and Province Wellesley (1871-1872).
William Henry Fortescue,1st Earl of Clermont,KP,was an Irish peer and politician.
Chichester Fortescue briefly served as an Irish Member of Parliament.
Thomas Fortescue,1st Baron Clermont of Ravensdale Park in County Louth,Ireland,was an Irish Whig politician and was the historian of the ancient Fortescue family of 12th century Devonshire origins.
Fortescue is an English surname that originated from the old Norman epithet Fort-Escu. People with the surname include:
The High Sheriff of Louth was the Crown's representative for County Louth,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.
Sir Faithful Fortescue (1585–1666),of Dromiskin in County Louth,Ireland,was Governor of Carrickfergus in Ireland,long the chief seat and garrison of the English in Ulster and was a royalist commander during the English Civil War.
William Charles Fortescue,2nd Viscount Clermont,was an Irish politician.
Garret Moore,1st Viscount Moore PC (I) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
The 1874 Dissolution Honours List was issued in February 1874 prior to the general election at the advice of the outgoing Prime Minister,William Gladstone.
