Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (usually referred to as Earl of Dunraven) was a title in the

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. It was created on 5 February 1822 for Valentine Quin, 1st Viscount Mount-Earl. Quin had already been created a Baronet, of

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, in the

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, in 1781, Baron Adare, of Adare in the County of Limerick, on 31 July 1800, and Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816. He was made Viscount Adare in 1822 at the same time as he was given the earldom. The latter peerage titles were also in the Peerage of Ireland. The title was in honour of the first earl's daughter-in-law, the heiress Caroline Wyndham of

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, who had married his eldest son Windham Henry Quin in 1810. His son, the second Earl, represented

in the

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from 1806 to 1820 and also sat in the

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as an

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from 1839 until his death in 1850. In 1815 the second Earl had assumed by Royal licence his wife's maiden surname of Wyndham in addition to that of Quin. His eldest son, the third Earl, sat as a

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Member of Parliament for

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from 1836 to 1850 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick from 1864 to 1871. In 1866, Dunraven was given the additional title of Baron Kenry, of

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in the

, in the

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. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Earl, who served in the

government of

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from 1885 to 1886. A member of the

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, he was also Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick from 1894 to 1926. When the

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, called a

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in 1902, Lord Dunraven was chairman representing the landlord side and together with

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played a decisive role in attaining agreement on the enactment of the Wyndham

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which enabled tenants to purchase lands from their landlords under favourable financial provisions. He was a

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of the

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from 1922 to 1926. He had no male heirs and on his death the barony of Kenry became extinct. The Fourth Earl published his memoir ''Past Times and Pastimes'' in 1922 (Hodder and Stoughton). He was succeeded in the other titles by his cousin, the fifth Earl. He had previously represented South Glamorganshire in Parliament as a

from 1895 to 1906. The titles became extinct when the seventh Earl died on 25 March 2011 at his residence, Kilgobbin House. The family seat until the seventh Earl's death was

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, in

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. The former seat was the palatial

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in County Limerick. Adare Manor was sold by the Dunraven family in 1982 and is now a luxury hotel. The south

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home of the Dunraven family, Dunraven House at Dunraven Bay, near Bridgend, no longer exists apart from the walled gardens and some floors and steps.

, as it was often called, was demolished in 1963 after having been used as a guest house for some years. In the First and Second World Wars, the house served as a military hospital. The Earl of Dunraven arrived at what would become

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in late December 1872, visited repeatedly, and decided to take over the valley for his own private hunting preserve. His land grab did not work, but he controlled 6,000 acres before he changed tactics and opened the area's first resort, the Estes Park Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1911.

Earls of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1822)

Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (30 July 1752 – 24 August 1824), styled Sir Valentine Quin, Bt. from 1781 to 1800, was an Irish peer and politician. He was the son of Windham Quin, Esq. of Adare, and Frances Dawson ...

(1752–1824) * Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1782–1850) * Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1812–1871) *

Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, soldier, sportsman and Conservative Party (UK), Conser ...

(1841–1926) * Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1857–1952) * Richard Southwell Windham Robert Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1887–1965) * Thady Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1939–2011)

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* Bunbury, Turtle, ''Adare Manor : The Renaissance of an Irish Country House'' (Adare Manor Publishing, 2019) * * *
Death of the 7th Earl of Dunraven & Mount Earl
''Peerage News'', Google Groups, 28 March 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunraven Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland

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Noble titles created in 1822

Earls of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1822)

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