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William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow PC (Ire) (11 March 1685 – 29 April 1746)[1] was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.

Political career

He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny County from 1715 to 1727.[2] Subsequently he represented Portarlington until 1733,[2] when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Castle Durrow, of Castle Durrow.[3] (At the time the civil parish of Durrow was an exclave of County Kilkenny; in 1842 it was transferred to Queen's County, later known as Laois.)

Flower was made High Sheriff of County Kilkenny in 1731,[1] and was invested to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1735.[4]

Family

He was the only son of Thomas Flower and his wife Mary Temple, daughter of Sir John Temple, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Jane Yarner.[5] Flower was educated at Christ Church, Oxford[5]

In 1717, Flower married Edith Caulfeild, daughter of Hon. Toby Caulfeild, a son of the 1st Viscount Charlemont.[6] They had two daughters and two sons.[3]

Flower died aged 61 and was buried at Finglas in County Dublin.[5] His only surviving son Henry succeeded to the barony.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  3. ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 47. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of Ireland". Retrieved 27 March 2009.
  5. ^ a b c "ThePeerage - William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow". Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  6. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p. 25.
  7. ^ Debrett, John (1831). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. vol. II (19th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 853. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Kilkenny County
1715–1727
With: William Ponsonby 1715–1721
Patrick Wemyss 1721–1727 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Portarlington
1727–1733
With: George Johnston 1727–1730
William Stannus 1730–1733 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Baron Castle Durrow
1733–1746 		Succeeded by
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