James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey

James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey FRS (c. 1645 – 1 April 1690), styled Lord Annesley from 1661 to 1686, was a British peer.

He was the son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey and Elizabeth Altham. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford University, on 4 December 1661.

He married Lady Elizabeth Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Frances Montagu, on 17 September 1669.^[1] They had children:

• James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey (13 July 1674 - 21 January 1701/2);
• John Annesley, 4th Earl of Anglesey (18 Jananuary 1676 - 18 September 1710);
• Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey (1677, 1683 - 1 April 1737).

He died intestate and his estate, with a value estimated at £4,000pa in England and Ireland, was administered to his widow on 6 June 1690.

He was briefly a Whig MP for County Waterford in 1666, after his brother-in-law, Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone succeeded in his father's (Irish) peerage.^[2] He was elected to the English seat of Winchester in the parliaments of May and October 1679, and 1681. He was a JP for Hampshire and Surrey (1674–81), colonel of the Hampshire militia (1675–81), Custos Rotulorum of Hampshire(1675–81) and Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire (1680–81).^[2]

He succeeded to his father's titles of Baron Mountnorris and Earl of Anglesey, in Wales [E., 1661], 2nd Baron Annesley, of Newport Pagnel, Buckinghamshire [E., 1661] and 3rd Viscount Valentia on 6 April 1686.^{[3] [4]}

References

1. http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/family.php?famid=F6038&ged=auden-bicknell.ged
2. Watson, Paula (1983). "ANNESLEY, James, Lord Annesley (c.1645-90), of Farnborough, Hants.". In Henning, B. D. The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust.
3. "James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey". The Peerage. 6 January 2013.
4. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, 1866

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