Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond

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Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond (around 1723 - July 21, 1774 ) was an Irish peer and British politician.

Percy Wyndham was born in 1723, the younger son of William Wyndham and Katherine Seymour . He attended Westminster School from 1737 to 1740 and then St Mary Hall College , Oxford , then went on a Grand Tour . On September 20, 1741, he inherited the mainly Irish goods from his uncle Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond , who was married to his mother's sister, and therefore added his name to Wyndham O'Brien. From 1745 to 1747 he was an MP in the House of Commons as Burgess for Taunton , from 1747 to 1754 for Minehead , from 1754 to 1761 for Cockermouth , from 1761 to 1768 again for Minehead and from 1768 until his death for Winchelsea .

He almost never appeared as a speaker in Parliament, but supported the policies of his brother Charles Wyndham and his brother-in-law George Grenville . He held several high state and court offices, for example from December 1755 to November 1756 he was one of the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury . With the takeover of Cavendish he lost his office, which is why Cavendish had him confer the titles of Earl of Thomond and Baron Ibrackan on December 11, 1756 . Since these titles belonged to the Peerage of Ireland , they were associated with a seat in the Irish , but not in the British House of Lords , so that Wyndham could continue to remain a member of the British House of Commons. From July 1757 to November 1761 he held the court office of Treasurer of the Household , which is why he became a member of the Privy Council on July 8, 1757 . From 1761 to 1765 he was Cofferer of the Household and from 1764 until his death Lord Lieutenant of Somerset .

Wyndham remained unmarried, after the untimely death of his brother in 1763 he became the guardian of his twelve-year-old nephew George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont . He lived mainly in London or on his English estates and almost never visited his property in Ireland. He died of a stroke on July 21, 1774. His title of nobility expired with his death, his property was inherited by his nephew George Wyndham, who then added O'Brien to his surname .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ APW Malcomson: The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740-1840. Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast 2006, ISBN 1-903688-65-5 , pp. 87f.
personal data
SURNAME Wyndham-O'Brien, Percy, 1st Earl of Thomond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomond, Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish peer and British politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1723
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1774