Baron Altham

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Baron Altham , of Altham in the County of Cork , was a hereditary British title of nobility bestowed in the Peerage of Ireland .

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The title was created on February 14, 1681 for Altham Annesley , the second-born son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey and his wife Elizabeth Altham, the daughter and co-heir of the English lawyer Sir James Altham († 1617). The title was given to him with the special note that, in the absence of his own male descendants, he could also be inherited by his younger brothers male descendants.

His underage son, the 2nd baron, only survived him by a year, so that the title fell as 3rd baron according to the special award to his uncle. When his son, the 4th Baron, died in 1727, his underage son James Annesley was missing - he was kidnapped and sold to America as a contract servant. Therefore, instead of this, his uncle followed as 5th Baron Altham, who thereby moved up in the line of succession to the title of Earl of Anglesey and in 1737 also inherited this title as 6th Earl, along with the subordinate titles 7th Viscount Valentia , 7th Baron Mountnorris and 6. Baron Annesley . His nephew James managed to return to England in 1741, but failed to gain the titles before he died in 1760. In 1761 his uncle, the 6th Earl, died without any descendants. As a result, the Earldom of Anglesey and the Baron Annesley, the Viscountcy Valentia and the baronies Mountnorris and Altham fell to his relative Arthur Annesley as the 8th Viscount. In 1793 he was made Earl of Mountnorris . With the death of his son, the 2nd Earl Mountnorris, on July 23, 1844, the Earldom Mountnorris and the Barony of Altham finally went out, the other titles fell to his relative Arthur Annesley as 10th Viscount Valentia.

List of Barons Altham (1681)

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