Viscount Avonmore is a title in the

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created on 29 December 1800 for the former

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and

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, Barry Yelverton, 1st Baron Yelverton. He had been created Baron Yelverton on 15 June 1795. The 4th Viscount fought numerous legal battles to prove that his first purported marriage to Theresa Longworth was illegal. Since the death of the 6th Viscount in 1910, both titles have been dormant. According to Cracroft's Peerage, heirs-male may exist in

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Viscounts Avonmore (1800)

Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, PC (Ire) KC (28 May 1736 – 19 August 1805), was an Irish judge and politician, who gave his name to Yelverton's Act 1782, which effectively repealed Poynings' Law and thus restored the independence of ...

(1736–1805) * William Charles Yelverton, 2nd Viscount Avonmore (1762–1814) * Barry John Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore (1790–1870) * William Charles Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore (1824–1883) * Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5th Viscount Avonmore (1859–1885) *

Algernon William Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore Algernon William Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore (19 November 1866 – 3 September 1910), an Irish nobleman, was the son of Major William Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore, and Emily Marianne Ashworth. He was a Captain (British Army and Royal Ma ...

(1866–1910) (dormant)

Viscounts Avonmore (1800)

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