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I cannot suppose that Lord
Clermont was influenced by any such motive. The name, common among French towns, probably struck him as well-sounding, and he changed the appellation of one of his seats in Ireland to it, calling Reynoldstown "Clermont Park" and afterwards took his title from his residence.
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However the same author had stated previously that the Earl's father, Thomas
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with connections in the royal court of France, and it is believed for that reason adopted a French-sounding title, meaning literally "clear mountain", and a common place name in France. Sir
Nathaniel Wraxall wrote on this subject as follows in his memoirs:
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The very title of "Clermont" which he assumed when raised to the peerage — and which might be esteemed fictitious, as no such place I believe existed in
Ireland — assimilated him to the blood royal of France; a younger branch of the illustrious line of
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to his brother James
Fortescue. By that date it was apparent that he was unlikely to produce his own son and heir, hence the special remainder was granted. In 1777 he was further honoured when he was made
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in Devon, England, the earliest
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Dromiskin. The mansion house was burned down by armed men in
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