The Irish Christian Brothers had long influenced Bishop Cantwell as he attended the Patrician Brothers Monastery National School in Fethard in his early childhood years.
Fethard | Fethard, County Tipperary | Fethard (County Wexford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency) |
By his third wife, Mary, daughter of Sir William Barker, 3rd Baronet of Kilcooly Abbey, he was the father of Mary, who married Thomas Barton of Grove House, Fethard, and of Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker.
He served four times as a Member of the Irish House of Commons, representing Naas between 1642 and 1648, the combined counties of Kildare and Wicklow in the Third Protectorate Parliament of 1659 at Westminster, Bannow between 1661 and 1666 and Fethard between 1692 and 1693.
The titles of Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary, and Viscount Lisburne, were created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1695 for John Vaughan, Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire and also Lord Lieutenant of that county.
His early retirement meant that he was able to begin his stud career at Coolmore's Australian base in the Hunter Region, New South Wales in 2005 before being shuttled back to their Irish base at Fethard, County Tipperary for the Northern Hemisphere breeding season.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet (1660–1710), Irish MP for Fethard (County Wexford)