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"Marquis" or "Marquess"
The Oxford dictionaries give "marquis" as the preferred spelling. Modern records of the House of Lords and a large majority of web sites use "marquess". (Therefore, the viewer should try both spellings when using a search engine.) Members of our extended families who held this title used both spellings.55, 65 |
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John
Petty-FitzMaurice, Apparently the title "Earl of Shelburne" was also held by John's uncle, Henry Petty, but became extinct when he died in 1751. The title was recreated for John225 on 26 Jun 1753. Born c. 1700; died in May 1761. Son of Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry. John married his first cousin, Mary FitzMaurice, and had at least two sons: |
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William
Petty-Fitzmaurice, Born 2 May 1737 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of John Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne. Hereditary Titles Prime Minister of England (Jul 1782-Apr 1783) William was educated privately and at Christ Church, Oxford (1755-1757). He served in the army during the Seven Years' War (which lasted from 1756 to 1763 and included the "French and Indian War" in North America). Politics In 1763, William became first lord of trade in the Grenville ministry but resigned within a few months. In 1766, he served as secretary of state for the southern department under William Pitt. He resigned in 1768. In 1782, he became home secretary under Lord Rockingham and was appointed prime minister in July 1782 upon the death of Rockingham. He played a key role in negotiating a peace treaty with France and the United States of America, thereby bringing an end to the American Revolution. The final terms relating to the United States of America were similar to those that William had proposed from the beginning of the Revolution. More details can be found in Ref. 240. William was defeated in 1783. He was created Marquis of Lansdowne in 1784 and, thereafter, was no longer active in political affairs. Boston, Massachusetts, and seven nearby communities have each named one of their streets "Lansdowne" to memorialize the 1st Marquis of Lansdowne because of his attitude toward the American colonies during the American Revolution. He consistently opposed the policies of George III towards the colonies in North America. He paid a political price for taking this position, which is still characterized in some English texts as "arrogance and aloofness". The Lansdowne Portrait Ownership of the portrait eventually passed to Lord Harry Dalmeny whose family had owned the painting since c.1900. In 2001, he said that he planned to sell the portrait. On March 14th, the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation donated $30 million to provide $20 million for the purchase of the painting, $4 million to pay for a permanent installation for the "Lansdowne" at the portrait gallery, and $6 million to finance a tour of the Lansdowne portrait around the United States. The portrait had been on anonymous loan to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution since 1968. It is now owned by the National Portrait Gallery.229 Nuclear Family 1. William Petty-FitzMaurice In London, on 19 Jul 1779, William (1st Marquis) married Louisa FitzPatrick (1755--London 7 Aug 1789) at St. George's, Bloombury. They had one child: 1. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (2 Jul 1780--31 Jan 1863), 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne (from 1809).
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Henry
Petty-Fitzmaurice, Born 2 Jul 1780 in Shelburne House, Berkeley Square, London Son of William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne. Henry was Home Secretary from 16 Jul 1827 to 26 Jan 1828. Henry inherited the title Baron and Earl of Kerry and Viscount Clanmaurice from Francis (3rd Earl of Kerry). He inherited from his father (1st Marquis of Lansdowne) the titles Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Wycombe, Earl of Shelburne, Viscount Calne and Calstone, Lord Wycombe, Baron Chippinw Wycombe, Viscount Fitzmaurice, and Baron Dunkeron215. Henry (3rd Marquis) was the Earl of Kerry during the genocide in Ireland in the 1840s. On 30 Mar 1808, Henry (3rd Marquis) married Louisa Emma Fox-Strangways (27 Jun 1785--Bowood Park 3 Apr 1851), Principal Lady of the Bedchamber, in Melbury and had three children:
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Part of the penalty for being a Catholic in Ireland during the early 19th Century was the status of impoverished tenant farmer. The entire useful production of the farm was needed to pay the rent. The Catholics were required to subsist primarily on the potatoes that they raised on rocky soil good for nothing else. When the potato blight arrived in the 1840's and destroyed the potato crop, approximately one million Irish Catholics died of starvation and related diseases.64 In every year of the 1840's, the amount of food raised in Ireland was more than enough to feed every inhabitant of the country.64 The food, however, was exported under guard by British troops. Many a Catholic was murdered by the English when he tried to prevent the export of food from a country of starving people to England and the world market. Although some landowners tried to alleviate the misery of their tenants, neither the monarch, nor the prime minister, nor any significant group in the Government, sought to implement a compassionate global solution such as would be put in place today in equivalent circumstances. The result was passive genocide. |
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Charles Maurice Mercer Nairne
(b. 21 Feb 1941) Son of 8th Marquis of Lansdowne. CURRICULUM VITAE
On 9 Oct 1965, Charles married Lady Frances Helen Mary Eliot (b. 6 Mar 1943), daughter of 9th Earl of St. Germans. They were divorced in 1987. They had four children:
In 1987, Charles married secondly Fiona Mary Merritt |
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