Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 1st Baronet (30 July 1752 – 24 August 1824) was an Irish Peer and MP.[1]

The son of Windham Quin, he was created a Baronet in 1781. He was elected in 1799 as Member of Parliament for Killmallock to the Irish House of Commons, sitting until the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1800/01.

He was created Baron Adare on 31 July 1800 – as a staunch supporter of the political union, he was recommended by Lord Cornwallis [2] – Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816, and Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl on 5 February 1822, all titles in the Peerage of Ireland. He presumably chose the title of Dunraven in honour of his daughter-in-law, the heiress Caroline Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, who had married his eldest son in 1810. His earldom lasted only two years until his death in 1824, when his son, Windham Henry Quin, became the 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mountearl. The family name had officially become Wyndham-Quin in 1815.[3]

He married firstly Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, on 24 August 1777. They had the following children:[3]

He married secondly Margaret Mary Coghlan in 1816.[4]

He is buried at St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland.

References

  1. ↑ Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. p. 816.
  2. ↑  Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1896). "Quin, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. 1 2 Debrett, John (1820). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. p. 1172. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1865). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Harrison and sons. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1822–1824 		Succeeded by
Windham Quin
Viscount Mount-Earl
1816–1824
Baron Adare
1800–1824
Baronetage of Ireland
New creation Baronet
(of Adare)
1781–1824 		Succeeded by
Windham Quin
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