Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim

Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, KP PC (Ire) (9 May 1768 – 31 December 1854), styled The Honourable from 1783 to 1795, and then Viscount Clements to 1804, was an Irish nobleman and politician.

Born in Dublin, he was educated at a private school in Portarlington and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1788. Two years later he stood to the Irish House of Commons as Whig member for Roscommon Borough as well as Carrick, however chose to sit for the latter. In 1798, as Viscount Clements, he was returned for both Cavan Borough and Leitrim. He represented the latter constituency until the Act of Union in 1801, and was then elected for Leitrim at Westminster until 1804.

Having served as High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1796, Clements that same year became Colonel of the Donegal Regiment until its disbandment in 1802. Two years later, he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Leitrim, but subsequently failed in his attempts to be elected to the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer. In 1831, as well as becoming Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim, Lord Leitrim was created Baron Clements in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Three years later he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick, and later that year he became a member of the Irish Privy Council.

Lord Leitrim died in 1854 aged 86 at his residence of Killadoon in County Kildare. His eldest son having predeceased him in 1839, he was succeeded in the earldom by his younger son, William Sydney Clements.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Maurice Copinger George Sandford	Member of Parliament for Roscommon Borough 1790–1791 With: George Sandford	Succeeded by Henry Moore Sandford George Sandford
Preceded by Edward King Hon. Thomas Pelham	Member of Parliament for Carrick 1790 – 1797 With: Edward King 1790–1793 Nathaniel Sneyd 1794–1797	Succeeded by Nathaniel Sneyd William Gore
Preceded by Peter La Touche Theophilus Jones	Member of Parliament for Leitrim 1798 – 1801 With: Theophilus Jones	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Nesbitt Lord Charles James FitzGerald	Member of Parliament for Cavan Borough 1798 With: Thomas Nesbitt	Succeeded by Thomas Nesbitt George Cavendish
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Leitrim 1801 – 1804 With: Theophilus Jones 1801-1802 Peter La Touche 1802-1804	Succeeded by Peter La Touche Henry John Clements
Honorary titles
New title	Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim 1831–1854	Succeeded by Edward King Tenison
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Robert Clements	Earl of Leitrim 1804 – 1854	Succeeded by William Clements
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Clements 1831 – 1854	Succeeded by William Clements