Viscount Kilwarden
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The titles of Baron Kilwarden was created twice, the title of Viscount Kilwarden was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created on 29 December 1800 for Arthur Woolfe. He had been created Baron Kilwarden on 3 July 1798.
Arthur Wolfe (1739–1803) was born at Forenaughts House, near Naas, County Kildare, the fifth son of John Wolfe of Forenaughts. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and called to Irish Bar in 1766. In 1778 he took silk as a Kings Counsel and in 1783 was elected as M.P. for Coleraine, subsequently Jamestown (1790) and finally Dublin (1798). In 1787 he became Solicitor-General for Ireland, and two years later was appointed Attorney-General, but after the unsuccessful trial of William Drennan he was removed from this office by Fitzwilliam. In 1798 he became Chief Justice of the Kings Bench for Ireland and was created 1st Baron Kilwarden of Newlands. He was an advocate of the Act of Union (1800), and on passing it through Parliament he was created 1st Viscount Kilwarden. A year before his death he was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Dublin.
In 1803 he met with a violent end whilst driving from his home, Newlands House, Co. Dublin, to a meeting of the Privy Council at Dublin Castle. When the insurrection led by Robert Emmet broke out in Dublin, Lord Kilwarden, in passing through Thomas Street, was dragged from his carriage and murdered.
In 1769 he had married Anne (1745–1804), created Lady Kilwarden and Baroness Kilteel in 1795, daughter of William Buxton of Ardee, County Louth, by Mary, daughter of Samuel Gibbons. On her death the title was inherited by their eldest son John Wolfe, 2nd Viscount Kilwarden, on whose death in 1830 all three titles became extinct.
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[edit] Barons Kilwarden (1795)
- Anne Wolfe, 1st Baroness Kilwarden (died 1804)
- John Wolfe, 2nd Baron Kilwarden (succeeded as Viscount Kilwarden in 1803)
[edit] Barons Kilwarden (1798)
- Arthur Wolfe, 1st Baron Kilwarden (created Viscount Kilwarden in 1800)
[edit] Viscounts Kilwarden (1800)
- Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden (1739–1803)
- John Wolfe, 2nd Viscount Kilwarden (1769–1830)
