Edward Plunkett, 14th Baron of Dunsany

Edward Wadding Plunkett, 14th Baron Dunsany (7 April 1773 – 11 December 1848) was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Edward Plunkett
Irish representative peer
In office
1836-1848
Personal details
Born(1773-04-07)7 April 1773
Died11 December 1848(1848-12-11) (aged 75)
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Charlotte Lawless
(m. 1803; died 1818)

Eliza Kinnaird
(m. 1823)
Children3, including Randall

Biography

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He was the son of Randall Plunkett, 13th Baron of Dunsany, and Margaret Mandeville, and he inherited his father's title of Baron of Dunsany on 4 April 1821. Between 1835 and his death he was Lord Lieutenant of Meath. On 18 January 1836, he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords as a Conservative.[citation needed]

On 20 June 1803, he married Hon. Charlotte Louisa Lawless, a daughter of Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baron Cloncurry. They had two sons (Randall and Edward, both of whom would succeed to their father's title in turn) and one daughter. After his first wife's death in 1818, he married secondly Hon. Eliza Kinnaird, a daughter of George Kinnaird, 7th Lord Kinnaird, on 26 March 1823.[1]

References

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  1. ^ 'Dunsany, Baron (Plunkett)', Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Bosworth, 1865), p.137.
Political offices
Preceded by Representative peer for Ireland
1836–1848
Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Meath
1835–1848
Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Randall Plunkett
Baron of Dunsany
1821–1848
Succeeded by