Sir William Hurly, 3rd Baronet (died 1691) was an

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 State rel ...

Jacobite politician. Hurly (Hurley) was the son of Sir Maurice Hurly (Hurley), 2nd Baronet and Margaret O'Dwyer, and in 1684 he succeeded to his father's

baronetcy A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...

. An adherent of James II after the

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, in 1689 he was the Member of parliament for

Kilmallock Kilmallock () is a town in south County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, near the border with County Cork, 30 km south of Limerick city. There is a Dominican Priory in the town and King John's Castle (Kilmallock), King's Castle (or K ...

in the

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during the

Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ...

. Owing to his support for the Jacobite cause, Hurly was

attainted In English criminal law, attainder was the metaphorical "stain" or "corruption of blood" which arose from being condemned for a serious capital crime (felony or treason). It entailed losing not only one's life, property and hereditary titles, but ...

in 1691 and forfeited his estates and title. He married Mary Blount, by whom he had a least one son, colonel John Hurley, who served in James II's army.Officers of the Jacobite Armies
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurly, William, 3rd Baronet Year of birth unknown 1691 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish Jacobites Irish MPs 1689 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies People convicted under a bill of attainder