Earl Tylney

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Earl Tylney , of Castlemaine in the County of Kerry , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on June 11, 1731 for the British MP Richard Child, 1st Viscount Castlemaine .

Already in 1704 he had inherited the title of Baronet , of Wanstead in the County of Essex , from his older brother, which had been bestowed on his father on July 16, 1678 in the Baronetage of England . On April 24, 1718, he was also elevated to Viscount Castlemaine , of Castlemaine in the County of Kerry, and Baron Newtown , of Newtown in the County of Donegal in the Peerage of Ireland .

After the Earl inherited the family estates of his wife's mother in 1734, he adopted her family name "Tylney" by parliamentary law of March 24, 1734.

All four titles lapsed on the childless death of his son, the 2nd Earl, on December 17, 1784.

List of Child Baronets and Earls of Tylney

Child Baronets, of Wanstead (1678)

Earls Tylney (1731)

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