Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

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Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 1861

Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (usually just called Earl of Dunraven ) was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .

Family residences were Dunraven Castle near Southerndown in South Wales , Adare Manor in Adare in County Limerick and Kilgobbin House also in Adare.

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on February 5, 1822 for Valentine Quin, 1st Viscount Mount-Earl . Together with the Earldom he was given the subordinate title Viscount Adare .

He had already been promoted to Baronet , of Adare in the County of Limerick on June 8, 1781 , to Baron Adare , of Adare in the County of Limerick on July 31, 1800 , and to Viscount Mount-Earl on February 5, 1816 . All these now subordinate titles also belonged to the Baronetage or Peerage of Ireland. The earl's eldest son carried the courtesy title Adare as the likely title heir ( Heir apparent ) .

On June 12, 1866, the 3rd Earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was given the title of another subordinate Baron Kenry , of Kenry in the County of Limerick. In contrast to the Irish titles, this title was linked to a hereditary seat in the House of Lords . This title expired when his son, the 4th Earl, died on June 14, 1926.

When the 7th Earl died on March 25, 2011 without male heirs, his titles of nobility became extinct.

List of Earls of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1822)

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