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Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 3rd Baronet
Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 3rd Baronet (died July 1795) was an Anglo-Irish member of the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown (County Longford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency), St Johnstown in 1783–1790 and Clonakilty (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Clonakilty in 1792–1795. In 1788 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork - a position that his father and brother (the 2nd Baronet) had also held. He was the younger son of Sir John Colthurst, 1st Baronet and Lady Charlotte FitzMaurice. He married Harriet La Touche, the daughter of Rt. Hon. David La Touche, on 8 May 1788. They had three children, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst, 4th Baronet. Elizabeth married Edward St Lawrence, Archdeacon of Ross. References 1795 deaths Politicians from County Cork Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Colthurst family, Nicholas High Sheriffs of County Cork Year of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting churches, such as the Methodist church, though some were Roman Catholics. They often defined themselves as simply "British", and less frequently "Anglo-Irish", "Irish" or "English". Many became eminent as administrators in the British Empire and as senior army and naval officers since Kingdom of England and Great Britain were in a real union with the Kingdom of Ireland until 1800, before politically uniting into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) for over a century. The term is not usually applied to Presbyterians in the province of Ulster, whose ancestry is mostly Lowland Scottish, rather than English or Irish, and who are sometimes ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
