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4 unusual facts about William James Conolly


John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire

He married firstly Mary Anne Drury, daughter of Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet, and secondly Caroline, daughter of William James Conolly, but died without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his half-brother.

Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross

On 23 February 1754 he married firstly Katherine, eldest daughter of William Conolly.

William Conolly

They had no children, and on Katherine's death in 1752 the estates were inherited by William James Conolly, his nephew by his brother Patrick.

Then their estates passed briefly to William's nephew William junior, and then on to his great-nephew Tom Conolly M.P., known as "Squire Tom", who was married to Lady Louisa Conolly.



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