Sir Richard Kyrle (c.1610 – 31 August 1684) was an English politician who briefly served as Governor of the Province of Carolina in 1684.
Kyrle was born in England, the son of James Kyrle and Ann Waller of Walford Court, Hertfordshire. By 1659 he had moved to Ireland and was recorded in a town census in County Cork. On 19 May 1661 he was knighted, and the same year he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for Cork City. Under the Act of Settlement 1662, Kyrle was granted the lands of Dromaneen Castle; the castle itself had been destroyed during the Irish Confederate Wars. Around this time he built an ironworks at Clonmeen; this had ceased to be active by 1685. [1]
On 29 April 1684, Kyrle was made a landgrave and commissioned to be governor by the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina. [2] He and his wife, Mary Jephson, arrived in the colony in late July or early August, but his short tenure as governor was ended by his death at the end of August 1684. His wife died the following month.
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, KG was an English nobleman and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I, and later as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under King James I.
Ardglass is a coastal fishing village, townland and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the historic barony of Lecale Lower. It is still a relatively important fishing harbour. It is situated on the B1 Ardglass to Downpatrick road, about 6 miles to the south east of Downpatrick, in the Lecale peninsula on the Irish Sea. It had a population of 1,668 in the 2001 Census, and is located within the Newry, Mourne and Down area.
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William de Burgh was the founder of the House of Burgh in Ireland and elder brother of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of Ely. William is often given the epithet, "the conqueror", but is not to be confused with the English king of the same nickname.
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