Portarlington Papers.
Papers of the Earls of Dorchester, Earls of Portarlington and members of the Dawson-Damer family.
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| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester (12 March 1718 – 12 January 1798) was a country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1762 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milton of Shrone Hill, Tipperary, Ireland on 3 July 1753. He was created Baron Milton of Milton Abbey on 10 May 1762. His sister Mary Damer (d. 1769) married William Henry Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow, and her son John Dawson became the 1st Earl of Portarlington. Joseph Damer's son George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester (28 March 1746 – 7 March 1808), was styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, and was a British politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795. He died unmarried in Park Lane, London,in March 1808, aged 61, when his titles became extinct. His estates were inherited by his sister Lady Caroline Damer, and on her death in 1828 by their Dawson cousins, who assumed the additional name of Damer. John Dawson-Damer, 2nd Earl of Portarlington, inherited the large but encumbered Irish properties, and his younger brothers Henry and George Dawson-Damer received respectively the estates of Milton Abbey and Came. Physical description: 4 volumes, 22 folders, 2 items. more |
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Expenses incurred relative to Lady Portarlington's funeral,
1874.
| In Collection: | Portarlington Papers. |
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| Language: | English |
| Extent: | 1 item (2 pages). |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 21,662
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |