Viscount Massereene is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1660, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Loughneagh. From 1665 to 1816 the Skeffington Baronetcy of Fisherwick was attached to the viscountcy and from 1756 to 1816 the Viscounts also held the title of Earl of Massereene. Since 1843 the peerages are united with titles of Viscount Ferrard, of Oriel and Baron Oriel, both in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Oriel, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscount also holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Loughneagh (1660) and Baron Oriel (1790) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Oriel (1821) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As Baron Oriel, he sat in the House of Lords until 1999.
Johanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Margaret Cousins and James Cousins, she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women Workers' Union. Her son Owen Sheehy-Skeffington became a politician and Irish senator.
John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel PC (Ire) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and as the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons (1785–1800).
Sir William Skeffington was an English knight who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland.
John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene was a prominent Anglo-Irish politician.
Francis Joseph Christopher Skeffington was an Irish writer and radical activist, known also by the nickname "Skeffy". He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Tom Kettle, and Frank O'Brien. When he married Hanna Sheehy in 1903, he adopted her surname as part of his own, resulting in the name "Sheehy Skeffington". They always spelled their joined names unhyphenated, although many sources add the hyphen.
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Louth.
This is a list of people to have been Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry.
Owen Lancelot Sheehy-Skeffington was an Irish university lecturer and senator. The son of pacifists, feminists and socialists Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, he was politically likeminded and as a member of the Irish Senate was praised as a defender of civil liberty, Democracy, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, women's rights, minority rights and many other liberal values.
Arthur Massey Skeffington was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 23 years from 1945 until his death in 1971.
Skeffington is a village in Leicestershire. It may also refer to:
Events from the year 1535 in Ireland.
The 1938 Lewisham West by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Lewisham West on 24 November 1938.
Thomas Henry Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard, styled The Honourable from 1790 until 1824, was an Irish peer and politician.
Thomas Cecil Skeffington-Lodge was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1945 to 1950.
Thomas Lodge was an English dramatist.
Sir Richard Skeffington was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1647.
Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet was an English landowner and politician, elected to the House of Commons in 1626. He was fined a high sum for supporting the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
William Skeffington, of Skeffington, Leicestershire, was an English Member of Parliament.
This is a list of members of the ninth parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 1878 until April 1881. The members were elected at the 1878 election in May 1878.
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