Earl of Donoughmore

Coat of arms of the Earls of Donoughmore

Earl of Donoughmore is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland , named after the parish of Donoughmore in County Cork .

The historic family seat of the Earls was Knocklofty House near Clonmel in County Tipperary in Ireland . The Earls' current home is The Manor House in Bampton , Oxfordshire , England .

Award, subordinate and other titles

The title was created on December 29, 1800 for Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Viscount Donoughmore . He was a general in the British Army and a member of the Irish House of Commons for more than ten years .

The 1st Earl had inherited the title of 2nd Baron Donoughmore , of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary, from his mother Christiana Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Baroness Donoughmore , in 1788 , which he conferred on October 16, 1783 in the Peerage of Ireland had been. In addition, the 1st Earl had already been raised to Viscount Donoughmore , of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary in the Peerage of Ireland on November 20, 1797 . On June 14, 1821, the 1st Earl was raised in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Viscount Hutchinson , of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary. The latter title gave entitlement to a hereditary seat in the British House of Lords until 1999 .

All of the aforementioned titles were awarded with a special addition, so that, in the absence of descendants of the 1st Earl, they could also be passed on to his brothers and their male descendants. Since the 1st Earl remained unmarried and childless, all four titles fell to his brother John Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Baron Hutchinson as 2nd Earl. He had also been a general in the British Army and a member of the House of Commons. In the fight against the French expedition to Egypt he had achieved a brilliant victory at Alexandria on March 21, 1801 and was then raised to Baron Hutchinson , of Alexandria and of Knocklofty in the County of Tipperary in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on December 5, 1801 been. When he died unmarried and childless in 1832, this baron title expired; the other four titles fell according to the special inheritance regulation to the eldest son of his younger brother Francis Hely-Hutchinson, who died in 1827, John Hely-Hutchinson as 3rd Earl. His descendants still hold the four titles today.

The marriage apparent of the respective earl uses the fictional courtesy title Viscount Suirdale . It was originally mistakenly assumed that the title Viscount Donoughmore with the territorial dedication "of Suirdale in the County of Tipperary" was bestowed.