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John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket

John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newtown, County Cork (10 July 1793 - 16 April 1871) was an Irish peer and Queen's Counsel.


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Adam Loftus

Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus (c. 1568–1643), nephew of the above, Irish peer

Bandon, Oregon

It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown.

Caledon, Western Cape

A bath house was built in 1797 and a village called Swartberg sprang up, which was later renamed Caledon in honor of the Irish peer Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (1777–1839), the first British governor of the Cape (1806-11).

Francis Bernard

Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon (1755–1830), Irish peer and MP for Ennis, Bandonbridge

Francis Conyngham

Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham (1797-1867), Anglo-Irish peer, politician, grandson of the above

Francis Thomas-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry

Others took a more jaundiced view: Horace Walpole called Kerry " a simple young Irish peer that has married an elderly Irishwoman who was divorced on his account and wasted a vast estate on the idlest ostentation."

Gustavus Hamilton

Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne (1931–1995), Irish peer and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire

Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne (1710–1746), Irish peer, English MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight)

Henry Crichton

Henry Crichton, 6th Earl Erne (born 1937), Irish peer and Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845 – 1927), British politician and Irish peer, Governor-General of Canada

James Caulfeild

James Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont (1880–1949), Irish peer, Northern Ireland politician

John Gore

John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly (1718–1784), Irish peer and MP for Jamestown and Longford County

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

Having worked hard for the restoration of Charles II, he was created on 4 September 1660 an Irish peer by the title of Baron Kingston, of Kingston in the County of Dublin granted at Westminster on 4 September 1660, was sworn of the Irish privy council, and was appointed on 19 March 1660–1 a commissioner of the court of claims for the settlement of Ireland.

John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore

The Rt. Hon. John Armar Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore (born 4 September 1951), is an Irish peer and the son of The 7th Earl Belmore.

John McClintock

John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell (1798–1879), Irish peer and Conservative Member of Parliament

John Verney

John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh (1640–1717), Irish peer, English MP for Buckinghamshire and Amersham

Richard Annesley

Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey (1693–1761), Irish peer, kidnapper and bigamist, son of the 3rd Baron Altham

Richard Hely-Hutchinson

Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore (1823–1866), Irish peer and Conservative politician

Thomas Fitzmaurice

Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry (1668–1741), his great-grandson, Irish peer and politician

Thomas Vesey

Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci (1803–1875), Irish peer and Conservative politician

William Alington

William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington (before 1641–1685), Irish peer, MP for Cambridge, 1664–1685

William Caulfeild

William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont (1624–1671), Irish peer, Custos Rotulorum of Armagh and Tyrone

William Flower

William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow (1685–1746), Irish peer and MP for Kilkenny County and Portarlington