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Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont

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64: 229:"It has been his desire, by tracing the various branches of the family to a common ancestor, who lived at the time when the history of Anglo-Norman England may be said to begin, to present it as an ideal whole, taking part through one or more of its members, and to a greater or less extent, in the events of almost every period of the history of our country; not, indeed, with any such prominence as to entitle it to a place among the powerful families of the land, but sufficiently to stamp it as a fair example of a knightly and noble House of England" 22: 241:"A last reading over of the beginning of the volume induces me to remind the reader that the so-called early history of this family, like that of many others, is really not history at all, not being founded on documentary evidence, but tradition — deserving of credit so far only as it is not contradicted by probability or historic fact. The " 518: 223:, London, 1869; 2nd edition London, 1880. He produced a Supplement in 1885 containing new information following his discovery of two 13th-century Fortescue charters in Eton College library. In the preface to the first edition he wrote of himself: 190:
He died childless at Ravensdale Park in July 1887, aged 72. His United Kingdom peerage became extinct on his death but he was succeeded in the Irish peerage, in accordance with the special remainder, by his brother
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Louth constituencies (1801–1922)
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
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by his wife Charlotte Fortescue, sister of the 1st Earl of Clermont. He served as
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in 1839. In 1840 he was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for
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Church, Devon, erected jointly by Thomas Fortescue and his younger brother
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thepeerage.com Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont of Dromisken
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In 1840 he married Lady Louisa Grace Butler, a daughter of
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Lord Clermont wrote the definitive history of the ancient
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History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches
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Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria
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Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
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Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
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Index


Ravensdale Park
County Louth
Whig
Fortescue family
Devonshire

Buckland Filleigh
Chichester
Chichester Fortescue
County Louth
County Cork
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
Exeter College, Oxford
Ravensdale Park
County Louth
Sir Henry James Goodricke, 7th Baronet
Sir Henry Goodricke, 6th Baronet
High Sheriff of Louth
County Louth
Peerage of Ireland
special remainder
Chichester Fortescue
Peerage of the United Kingdom
House of Lords
James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Baron Carlingford

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