1st Viscount Guillamore
Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore
(see
here),
born 1766,
Attorney-General 1803,
prosecuted
Robert Emmet 1803,
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland 1805, think until 1831, famed for his wit and learning,
retired from the bench 1831, cr 1831,
died 1840, age 74 yrs,
see
biography
in
[DNB],
had issue:
- Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore,
born 26th Dec 1795,
MP for Co.Limerick 1820-26 and 1830-35,
succ 1840,
died 22nd July 1848, age 52 yrs,
see biography
in [DNB],
had issue:
- Standish O'Grady, 3rd Viscount Guillamore,
born 8th July 1832, succ 1848,
mar 1853 to
Adelaide Blennerhassett
and died 10th Apr 1860, age 27 yrs, having had issue:
- Cecilia O'Grady,
born 1855, mar
Edward Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy.
- The Hon. Thomas O'Grady,
born 1810, Major in the 74th Highlanders,
possibly had illegitimate son born in Stirling 1840
(see also here).
- This
is NOT a portrait of the
1st Viscount Guillamore
since John Butler Yeats was not alive at that time.
It is probably a picture of
Standish Hayes O'Grady or Standish James O'Grady.
- The 9th and last Viscount Guillamore died 1955, title extinct
[obituary, Limerick newspaper, 1955].
- I have met an old farmer in Newport, Co.Tipperary who seems to me (and others)
to be the rightful heir to the dormant Viscounty of Guillamore.
He has been told about the possibility, and is not interested.
- The Viscounty of Guillamore is an Irish-only peerage (created post-1801,
NOT entitled to a seat in the
House of Lords).
Since 1983.