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, and had commanded the Royal Irish Army detachment in

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in 1689. He was later killed at the Battle of Steinkirk. He married on 23 November 1696 Anne Boyle, the daughter of

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. They had five sons and four daughters. Viscount Mountjoy was friends with the writer

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, colonel of a regiment of dragoons and soon after one of the Keepers of the Great Seal. On his death on 10 January 1728, his title passed to his son Sir William Stewart, 3rd Viscount Mountjoy, later (1745)

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