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Alexander MacDonnell (other)
Alexander MacDonnell may refer to: *Sir Alexander Macdonnell (died 1634), of the Macdonnell baronets of Maye * Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet (1794–1875), of the Macdonnell baronets of Kilsharvan *Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim PC (Ire) (1615 – June 1699) was a Catholic peer and military commander in Ireland. He fought together with his brother Randal on the losing side in the Irish Confederate Wars (1641–1653); and then, ... (1615–1699) * Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell (c. 1725–1761), also called Alexander * Alexander Macdonell (bishop of Kingston) (1762–1840), first Roman Catholic bishop of Kingston, Upper Canada See also * Alexander McDonnell (other) * Alexander Macdonell (other) {{hndis, Macdonnell, Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macdonnell Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Macdonnell, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary .... Both creations are extinct. The Macdonnell Baronetcy, of Maye in the County of Antrim, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 30 November 1627 for Alexander Macdonnell. The third Baronet was attainted in 1691 and the baronetcy forfeited. The Macdonnell Baronetcy, of Kilsharvan in the County of Meath, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1872 for the Irish civil servant Alexander Macdonnell. The title became extinct on his death in 1875. Macdonnell baronets, of Maye (1627) *Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet (died 1634) *Sir James Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet
Sir Alexander MacDonnell, 1st Baronet (1794–1875) was an Irish civil servant, commissioner of national education in Ireland. Life MacDonnell, eldest son of the physician and polymath James MacDonnell, was born at Belfast in 1794. He gained a king's scholarship at Westminster School in 1809, and was elected in 1813 to Christ Church, Oxford, where he held a studentship until 1826. He graduated B.A. 1816, and M.A. 1820, and won four university prizes—those for Latin and English verse and for the Latin and English essays – an accumulation of honours only once before achieved. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 23 November 1824, went the midland circuit, attended the Leicester and Northampton sessions, and served as a commissioner of inquiry into public charities. Of an exceedingly sensitive temperament, he broke down in pleading a case before a committee of the House of Lords, and, mortified beyond expression, renounced the bar, returned to Ireland, and accepted the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl Of Antrim
Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim PC (Ire) (1615 – June 1699) was a Catholic peer and military commander in Ireland. He fought together with his brother Randal on the losing side in the Irish Confederate Wars (1641–1653); and then, having succeeded his brother as the 3rd Earl of Antrim in 1683, fought in the Williamite War (1688–1691), on the losing side again. Twice he forfeited his lands and twice he regained them. However, he may be known best for having been shut out of Derry by the apprentice boys in an episode preceding the Siege of Derry. Birth and origins Alexander was born in 1615, probably at Dunluce Castle, his parents' habitual residence. He was the second son of Randal MacDonnell and his wife, Alice O'Neill. His father, Lord of the Route and Constable of Dunluce Castle, had been knighted by Lord Deputy Mountjoy in 1602. His father would be created Viscount of Antrim in 1617 and advanced to Earl in 1620. His father's famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell
Alastair Roy MacDonell of Glengarry (ca 1725–1761; Scottish Gaelic: ''Alasdair Ruadh MacDomhnaill'', was the 13th chief of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry. Brought up as a Catholic and largely educated in France, he was arrested in November 1745 on his way to join the 1745 Jacobite Rising. After his release from the Tower of London in 1747, MacDonell became a highly damaging mole (espionage), mole for the Hanoverian government inside the Jacobite movement. In addition to delivering fellow Jacobite leader Dr. Archibald Cameron of Lochiel to the government, resulting in the latter's 1753 execution at Tyburn, Glengarry is also believed to have been used as an agent of influence to divide and rule, sow dissension within the Jacobite movement over the missing Loch Arkaig treasure. Some sources allege that Glengarry simultaneously "helped himself" to the treasure, but even if he did so, he still could never afford to properly rebuild Invergarry Castle, which had been severely damaged by g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Macdonell (bishop Of Kingston)
Alexander Macdonell (17 July 1762 – 14 January 1840) was an outlawed, outlawed "heather priest" of the illegal Catholic Church in Scotland, the first Roman Catholic military chaplain in Post-Reformation British military history, and the first Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston (Canada), Bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Upper Canada. He was born at Glen Urquhart in Scotland and served as a chaplain with the Glengarry Fencibles during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. His presence insured that the regiment "distinguished itself by its humanity". When the regiment was demobilized, most of the soldiers found themselves unemployed and destitute. He led them to Upper Canada, where they received a grant of land in return for their military service in what became the very prosperous Canadian Gaelic-speaking pioneer settlement of Glengarry County, Ontario. When Macdonell arrived in 1804, he found only three priests and three churches in Upper Canada. By his energy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonnell (other)
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Alexander McDonnell may refer to: *Alexander McDonnell (chess player) (1798–1835), Irish chess master *Alexander McDonnell (engineer) (1829–1904), locomotive engineer of the Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland), & North Eastern Railway (England) *Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim (1615–1699), Roman Catholic peer and military commander in Ireland *Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim (1935–2021) See also *Alexander McDonell (other) *Alexander MacDonnell (other) Alexander MacDonnell may refer to: *Sir Alexander Macdonnell (died 1634), of the Macdonnell baronets of Maye * Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet (1794–1875), of the Macdonnell baronets of Kilsharvan *Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
