Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina (6 May 1798 – 18 November 1872) was an

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peer. He was the son of Nathaniel Massey, 2nd Baron Clarina and Penelope Westropp, and he succeeded to his father's title as Baron Clarina in January 1810. Clarina was educated at

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and graduated on 20 February 1819. In 1849, Clarina was elected as an

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and took his seat in the

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as a

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.'Baron Clarina'
''Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland''
(Bosworth, 1865), p.95. Clarina was the builder of Elm Park near

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; the house was demolished in 1965. He married Susan Elizabeth Barton, daughter of Hugh Barton and Anne Johnston, on 9 September 1828, and they had eight children. Clarina was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Eyre. His fifth son was

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarina, Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron 1798 births 1872 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers