The Irish peerage and the act of union, 1800-1971

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volumn 10, Issue , 2000, Pages 289-327

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DOI: 10.1017/S0080440100000141     Document Type: Review

References (53)

1. Francis G. James, Lords of the Ascendancy: the Irish House of Lords and ils Members, 1600-1800 (Dublin, 1995), pp. 20-2
2. R.P. Gadd, The Peerage of Ireland, with Lists of all Irish Peerages, Past and Present (Irish Peers Association, 1985), 7-10 and passim
3. G.C. Bolton, The Passing of the Irish Act of Union: a Study in Parliamentary Politics (Oxford, 1966), 153, 167-72, 197-9, 205-7 and 218-22
4. T.J. Kiernan, History of the Financial Administration of Ireland to 1817 (Dublin, 1930), 224
5. H.M.C. Stopford-Sackville Mss., I, 243, William Tonson to Lord George Germain, 18 Feb. 1776
6. Bolton, Union, 182-4
7. Malcomson, John Foster: the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy (Oxford, 1978), 15-16 and 323-7
8. W.A. Maguire, The Downshire Estates in Ireland, 1801-45 (Oxford, 1972), 1-8 and 85-92
9. and Malcomson, 'The Gentle Leviathan: Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire, 1753-1801, in Plantation to Partition: Essays in Ulster History in Honour of J.L. McCracken (Belfast, 1981), 103, 105 and 107
10. F.G. James, 'The Active Irish Peers in the early Eighteenth Century', The Journal of British Studies, vol. XVIII (Spring 1979), passim; H.M.C. Egmont Mss., I, 403-40, II, 60 and 4526, and III, 138, diary of the ist earl of Egmont; [Egmont or, more probably, his son, later the 2nd earl], The Question of the Precedency of the Peers of Ireland in England, Fairly Stated in a Letters to an English Lord by a Nobleman of the other Kingdom (Dublin, 1739 [and reprinted at the time of George III's coronation in 1761]), passim
11. Thomas F. Moriarty, 'The Irish Absentee Tax Controversy of 1773 . . .', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. CXVII, no. 4 (Sep. 1974), passim
12. PRONI, Leinster Papers, D/3078/3/27, Viscount Melbourne, the Prime Minister, to Duke of Leinster, 13 Jan. 1837
13. PRONI, Pratt Papers, T/2627/4/48, Pitt to Earl Camden, 9 June 1796. This letter also explains the circumstances of the creation of the Irish barony of Carrington in favour of an Englishman
14. Portrait of a Whig Peer, Compiled from the Papers of the 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1739-1802) by Brian Connell (1957), 352 and 402-4
15. PRONI, Rossmore Papers, T/2929/5/11, Tyrconnel to Lord Rossmore, 4 Sep. 1829
16. Ian Gow and Timothy Clifford, Duff House (Edinburgh, I995), 29 and passim
17. Correspondence of John, 4th Duke of Bedford, 1742-70, ed. Lord John Russell (3 vols., 1842-6), 11, 347, Newcastle to Bedford, 21 July 1758
18. C.R. Mayes, 'The Early Stuarts and the Irish Peerage', in English Historical Review, LXXIII (1958), 247. This excludes creations made after the outbreak of the civil war
19. PRONI, Rossmore Papers, T/2929/5/76, incomplete copy of a printed squib called The Spectator's Anatomy of the Peerage, c.31 Dec. 1831
20. Mayes, 'Early Stuarts and the Irish Peerage', 349-43
21. PRONI, Hotham Papers, T/342g/1/8, earl of Buckinghamshire, the lord lieutenant, to Sir Charles Hotham Thompson, Bt, 26 Dec. 1776
22. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack (Dublin, 1751), 40-41
23. David Large, 'The Wealth of the Greater Irish Landowners, 1750-1815', Irish Historical Studies (hereafter IHS), XV (1966-7), 27
24. Large, 'Greater Irish Landowners', 28-9
25. H. Montgomery Hyde, The Rise of Castlereagh (1933), 10-11
26. H.M.C. Charlemont Mss., I, 137; PRONI, Leinster Papers, D/3078/3/4, duke of Leinster to Earl Temple, the lord lieutenant, 15 Jan. 1783; PRONI, Foster/Massereene Papers, D/562/2718, Hon. Chichester Skeffington to his wife, [11 Feb. 1783]
27. PRONI, Abercorn Papers, T/2541/IA1/13/227, Arthur Pomeroy (soon to be created Lord Harberton, 'a place in Devonshire where my family formerly had some concern') to earl of Abercorn, 21 July 1783
28. PRONI, Hotham Papers, T/3429/2/6, Rev. Dr John Hotham to Sir Charles Hotham Thompson 7 July [1779]
29. Lord Fife and his Factor: being the Correspondence of James, 2nd Lord Fife, 1729-1809, ed. Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1929), 141-4, especially Lord Fife to William Rose, 30 May 1782
30. Edward McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), 76-84
31. Quoted in Constantia Maxwell, Dublin under the Georges, 1714-1830 (1956), 127
32. H.M.C. Various Collections, VI, 57, Baron Wainwright to George Dodington, 2 Jan. 1733/4
33. Trinity College, Dublin, Crofton Papers, W. Disney to Christopher Henry Earbery, 4 Aug. 1787; PRONI, Sheffield (Gage) Papers, T/2965/148, Thomas Pelham to Lord Sheffield, 10 June 1797
34. Malcomson, 'Lord Shannon', in Esther Hewitt (ed.), Lord Shannon's Letters to his Son ... 1790-1802 ... (PRONI, Belfast, 1982), xxvi and xxxii-xxxvi
35. Malcomson, 'Lord Abercorn', 63-4
36. See, for example, Cornwallis Correspondence, III, 184-6, Cornwallis to Portland, 11 Feb. 1800 (two letters, one 'official' and one 'private', of the same date)
37. Cockayne, 'The Peerage of Ireland', 5-6
38. Sir James Ferguson, Bt, The Sixteen Peers of Scotland (Oxford, 1960), 30, 42, 82, 86 and 153
39. Bence-Jones, Irish Country Houses, xvii-xix
40. Malcomson, 'Belleisle [Co. Fermanagh] and its Owners', Clogher Record (1998), 38
41. PRONI, Arran Papers, T/3200/6/1, printed petition from the liberal Irish peers to the king, Apr.-May 1837; HLRO, Writs, box 26, election of Lord Downes, 30 Mar. 1833
42. PRONI, Leinster Papers, D/3078/3/35, earl of Clarendon, the whig lord lieutenant to duke of Leinster, the leader of the Irish whigs, 24 Dec. 1848. This was also true of the Scottish peerage: of 18 Scottish peers who were made UK peers between 1830 and 1874, 17 were liberals (PRONI, T/3430/10)
43. Turberville, House of Lords, 1784-1837, Chapter Six
44. PRONI, Sneyd Papers, T/3229/1I28, Lord Clare to Lord Auckland, 6 Mar. (1800)
45. PRONI, Resdesdale Papers, T/3030/7/34, Lord Redesdale, lord chancellor of Ireland, to Spencer Perceval, 5 Jan. 1806
46. C.M. Tenison, 'Cork MPs, 1559-1800', Cork Historial and Archaeological Journal, II (1896), 37
47. Large, 'House of Lords and Ireland', 368-9
48. PRONI, Abercorn Papers, T/2541/VR/330/3, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bt, the chief secretary, to duke of Abercorn, the lord lieutenant, 28 Apr. 1874
49. See Malcomson, 'Introduction to the Annaly/Clifden Papers', PRONI, Register of Irish Archives
50. Ralph E. Pumphrey, 'The Introduction of Industrialists into the British Peerage: a Study in Adaptation of a Social Institution', The Americal Historial Review, LXV, no. 1 (Oct. 1959), 8 and passim
51. Lysaght, 'Irish Peers and the House of Lords'
52. By EH. Maugham (later lord chancellor) and W.A. Greene (later master of the rolls). Their opinion was published by Lord Dunboyne under the title 'Irish Representative Peers: Counsel's Opinion, 1924', Public Law (Winter 1967), 314-22
53. Galloway, Order of St Patrick, 53-78