Earl of Bantry
Earl of Bantry was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .
The Earls' family seat was Bantry House near Bantry in County Cork .
Award and history of the title
The title was created on January 22, 1816 for the Anglo-Irish military Richard White, 1st Viscount Bantry . Together with the earliest dignity , he was given the subordinate title Viscount Beerhaven . White had distinguished himself in particular in January 1797 when he fought off a French attempt to land on Bantry Bay (in the run-up to the Irish Rebellion of 1798 ) . He was raised for this in the Peerage of Ireland on March 24, 1797 to Baron Bantry , of Bantry in the County of Cork, and on December 29, 1800 to Viscount Bantry , of Bantry in the County of Cork.
His younger son, who later became the 3rd Earl, added his family name to Hedges-White in 1840 as a general heir to his paternal grandmother . All four titles finally expired on the death of his childless only son, the 4th Earl, on November 30, 1891.
List of the Earls of Bantry (1816)
- Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry (1767-1851)
- Richard White, 2nd Earl of Bantry (1800–1868)
- William Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry (1801-1884)
- William Hedges-White, 4th Earl of Bantry (1854-1891)
Web links
- Bantry, Earl of (I, 1816–1891) at Cracroft's Peerage (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The London Gazette : No. 17104, p. 173 , January 30, 1816.
- ^ The London Gazette : No. 13999, p. 318 , April 4, 1797.
- ^ The London Gazette : No. 15326, p. 40 , January 6, 1801.