Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore
Lord Rossmore
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Born | 18 April 1726 |
Died | 6 August 1801 (aged 75) London |
Allegiance | ![]() |
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British Army |
Rank | General |
Commands held | Ireland |
Battles/wars | Jacobite Rising |
General Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore PC (Ire) (18 April 1726 – 6 August 1801) was an Irish British Army officer and politician.
Military career
Cuninghame was the son of Colonel David Cuninghame, and his wife Margaret Callander of Craigforth. He was a General in the Army who fought at an early age at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 with the 14th Foot. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1793 to 1796.
Cuninghame sat as a Member of the Irish House of Commons for Tulsk from 1751 to 1761, for Armagh Borough from 1761 to 1768 and for Monaghan Borough from 1768 to 1796. Between 1788 and 1789 he represented East Grinstead in the British House of Commons.
Lord Rossmore later sat as an Irish Representative Peer in the House of Lords from January 1801 until his death in August 1801. He was childless and was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his wife's nephew Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore. Lady Rossmore died in 1824.
Family lineage
Cuninghame was a descendant of the Cuninghames of Drumquhassle[1] and married Elizabeth Murray, second daughter and co-heiress of Colonel John Murray, in 1754. He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1782 and in 1796 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Rossmore, of Monaghan in the County of Monaghan,[2] with remainder to his wife's nephews Henry Alexander Jones (the son of Theophilus Jones and Anne Murray, eldest sister of Elizabeth; Henry Alexander Jones died childless before his uncle Lord Rossmore) and Warner William Westenra and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Westenra, sons of Henry Westenra and Harriet Murray, youngest sister of Elizabeth.
Notes
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External links
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Parliament of Ireland | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Tulsk 1751–1761 With: Frederick Gore |
Succeeded by William Caulfeild John Bagwell |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough 1761–1768 With: Hon. John Ponsonby 1761 Hon. Barry Maxwell 1761–1768 |
Succeeded by George Macartney Philip Tisdall |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Monaghan Borough 1768–1796 With: William Henry Fortescue 1768–1771 Henry Westenra 1771–1776 James Fortescue 1776–1777 Robert Dobson 1777–1783 Thomas James Fortescue 1783 Theophilus Jones 1783–1791 Cromwell Price 1791–1796 |
Succeeded by Cromwell Price Henry Westenra |
Parliament of Great Britain | ||
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for East Grinstead 1788–1789 With: George Medley |
Succeeded by George Medley Richard Ford |
Military offices | ||
New regiment | Colonel of the 124th Regiment of Foot 1762–1763 |
Regiment disbanded |
Preceded by | Colonel of the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot 1768–1775 |
Succeeded by George West |
Preceded by | Colonel of the 14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1775–1787 |
Succeeded by John Douglas[disambiguation needed] |
Preceded by | Colonel of the 5th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons 1787–1799 |
Regiment disbanded |
Preceded by | Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1793–1796 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Carhampton |
Peerage of Ireland | ||
New creation | Baron Rossmore 1796–1801 |
Succeeded by Warner William Westenra |
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