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2 unusual facts about Nicholas Lawless


Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baron Cloncurry

Lord Cloncurry died at Maretimo, Blackrock, County Dublin, in August 1799, aged 63, and was succeeded in his titles by his son, Valentine.

Another daughter, the Honourable Valentina Letitia Lawless, married Sir Francis Conyngham.


Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry

He is believed to have joined the United Irishmen in 1793, shortly before his father Nicholas Lawless, a wool-merchant turned banker who converted from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland and became the first Lord Cloncurry, took charge of Lyons House.


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