Arthur Annesley, 10th Viscount Valentia (30 November 1785 – 30 December 1863) was an English-born land-owner, an Irish
peer and the Premier
Baronet of
Ireland.
He married, on 12 August 1808, Eleanor O'Brien, the daughter of Henry O'Brien (later Stafford-O'Brien) of
Blatherwycke park,
Northamptonshire and his wife Margaret Flenary.[2] Together, they had thirteen children, four sons and nine daughters:
Arthur Annesley (1809–1844). He married, in 1836, Flora-Mary Macdonald, daughter of
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonald,[3] and had issue, two daughters and one son:
Mary Annesley (1836–1879), who married, on 24 February 1855,
Captain Walter Chidiock Nangle, and had issue.[4]
Flora Annesley (born 1841), who married, on 23 June 1863,
Colonel Francis Lyon, and had issue.[5]
Charles Arthur James George Annesley (born 1820).[8]
Captain Algernon Sydney Arthur Annesley (born 1829), was an officer in the Oxfordshire Militia, and married, on 11 October 1864, Helen Sydney Richards, a daughter of Griffiths Richards QC., and had issue[9]
Ellen Arthur Frances Annesley (died 1811), a twin with her sister,[10]
Catherine Arthur Letitia Annesley (died 1811).[11]
Frances Arthur Charlotte Annesley, who married, on 17 October 1853, Captain William Linskill of Tynemouth Lodge, Northumberland, and had issue.[13]
Matilda Arthur Marina Annesley, who married, on 10 July 1845, John Kent Egerton Holmes, and had issue.[14]
Eva Arthur Henry Medora Annesley, who married, on 12 January 1853, Sir Henry Robinson. They were the parents of
Henry Robinson, first Baronet,KCB, sometime Vice-President of the Local Government Board of Ireland, and had issue.,[15] great-grandchildren included stained glass artist
Evie Hone.
On the death of the
ninth Viscount Valentia, who had no immediate relatives, Annesley, being a very distant cousin, assumed the peerage, which had been created in 1642,[19] without attempting to establish this right in the
House of Lords. Cokayne points out that he was "probably correct" in assuming the peerage.[20] He also assumed the title of Baron Mountnorris, another Irish peerage, which was also held by the ninth Viscount,[21] and was the Premier Baronet of Ireland, inheriting also the Annesley Baronetcy, of Newport Pagnell.[22]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Arthur Annesley, 10th Viscount Valentia
Lord Valentia died on 30 December 1863 at Bletchingdon park, aged 78. His wife had predeceased him, having died on 10 June 1843.[27]
References
Citations
^Cokayne (1898), p. 16; the descent being thus: this Arthur Annesley, born 1785, was the son of Arthur Annesley, son of Francis Annesley, Rector of Winwick, son of Francis Annesley, son of the Francis Annesley, sixth son of Arthur Annesley, first Viscount Valentia.
^Cokayne (1898), p. 16; Lodge (1861), p. 575; Cokayne notes that Miss O'Brien was a "da. (or reputed da.)", implying illegitimacy.
^Daughter of Temple Stanyan; John Knox Laughton (1890),
"Hardy, Charles (1716?–1780)", Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 24; Drummond, Mary M. (1964),
"Hardy, Sir Charles (c.1714–80)", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790.