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William Forward
William Forward MP, of Castle Forward, Newtown Cunningham, County Donegal, was an MP in the Irish Parliament for St Johnstown (County Donegal) (Parliament of Ireland constituency), St. Johnstown Constituency, County Donegal. Colonel William Forward was married to Isabella Stewart (granddaughter of Bart. William Stewart), and had one daughter, Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow, Alice. His daughter Alice married Viscount Wicklow Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow, Ralph Howard, and became Countess of Wicklow. The Forwards owned 6,000 acres in the barony of Raphoe, County Donegal, which passed on to Alice and the Earls of Wicklow. Williams father Lieutenant Colonel John Forward, was High Sheriff of Donegal, had also served in the Irish House of Commons for the St. Johnstown Constituency, and was involved in the Siege of Londonderry, and his mother was Anne Forward, and Lieutenant Colonel John Forward's grandfather Rev. Robert Forward was dean of Dromore. Forward in 1722 built t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtown Cunningham
Newtown Cunningham, usually spelt Newtowncunningham or abbreviated to Newton (), is a village and townland in the Laggan district in the east of County Donegal, Ireland. It is located on the N13 road (Ireland), N13 road east of Letterkenny and west of Derry. At the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, the village population was 1,192. History and name Evidence of ancient settlement in the area, from the Iron Age onwards, includes the ringfort at Grianan of Aileach. Also nearby is the sixteenth-century Burt Castle. The area of Newtown Cunningham was historically known as ''Culmacatrain''. Like nearby Manorcunningham, the village takes its current name from John Cunningham, originally from Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, in Scotland, who was among the settlers granted lands in County Donegal during the 17th century Plantation of Ulster. The village's architecture includes stately Anglo-Irish big house, Anglo-Irish "big houses", now known as the Manse and the Castle, which reflect the vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Johnstown (County Donegal) (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
St Johnstown was a borough constituency for St Johnston, County Donegal, St Johnston in County Donegal represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. Members of Parliament Notes References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Johnstown Donegal Historic constituencies in County Donegal Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county of the Republic of Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is the northernmost county of Ireland. The county mostly borders Northern Ireland, sharing only a small border with the rest of the Republic. It is named after the town of Donegal (town), Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell or Tirconaill (), after Tyrconnell, the historical territory on which it was based. Donegal County Council is the local government in the Republic of Ireland, local council and Lifford is the county town. The population was 167,084 at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census. Name County Donegal is named after the town of Donegal (town), Donegal () in the south of the county. It has also been known by the alternative name County Tyrconnell or Tirconaill (, meaning 'Land of Conall Gulban, Conall'). The latter was its official name between 1922 and 1927. This is in reference to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Howard, 1st Countess Of Wicklow
Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow (died 7 March 1807), née Alice Forward, was an Anglo-Irish peeress. She was the daughter and heiress of William Forward of Castle Forward, County Donegal, by his wife Isabella Stewart. On 11 August 1755 she married the politician Ralph Howard, who was later created Baron Clonmore and Viscount Wicklow. Her husband died in 1789. On 5 December 1793 she was created ''suo jure'' Countess of Wicklow in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.John Bernard Burke''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire''(H. Colburn, 1845). Upon her death in 1807 she was succeeded by her eldest son, Robert Howard, who had already succeeded to his father's titles. References Year of birth unknown 1807 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Alice Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow
Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow PC (I) (29 August 1727 – 26 June 1789) was an Anglo-Irish politician and nobleman. Early life Ralph Howard was born on 29 August 1727 at Shelton Abbey, County Wicklow, the eldest son of seven children born to the former Patience Boleyn and the Rt. Rev. Robert Howard (1670–1740), Bishop of Elphin. His paternal grandfather was Dr. Ralph Howard. His maternal grandparents were Godfrey Boleyn of Fennor, County Meath ( a distant connection of the family of Anne Boleyn), and Mary Singleton, sister of Henry Singleton, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Career Howard was High Sheriff of Wicklow in 1749, and of County Carlow in 1754. In 1761 and 1768 he was elected MP for both County Wicklow and the borough of St Johnstown, choosing to sit for the county. In May 1770, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland and on 12 July 1776 Howard was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Clonmore of Clonmore Castle, County Carlow. In Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Sheriff Of Donegal
The High Sheriff of Donegal was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland, from the late 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Donegal County Sheriff. The High Sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However, the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770 Deaths
Events January– March * January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort. * February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Virginia is destroyed by fire, along with most of his books. * February 14 – Scottish explorer James Bruce arrives at Gondar, capital of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia) and is received by the Emperor Tekle Haymanot II and Ras Mikael Sehul. * February 22 – Christopher Seider, an 11-year-old boy in Boston in the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, is shot and killed by a colonial official, Ebenezer Richardson. The funeral sets off anti-British protests that lead to the massacre days later. * March 5 – Boston Massacre: Eleven American men are shot (five fatally) by British troops, in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War five years later. * March 21 – King Prithvi Narayan Shah shifts to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Parliament Of Ireland (pre-1801) For County Donegal Constituencies
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
