Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston
The 14th Viscount Gormanston GCMG | |
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35th Governor of the Leeward Islands | |
In office 1885–1887 | |
Preceded by | Charles Monroe Eldridge |
Succeeded by | Charles Mitchell |
14th Governor of British Guiana | |
In office 1887–1893 | |
Preceded by | Charles Bruce |
Succeeded by | Charles Bruce |
7th Governor of Tasmania | |
In office 8 August 1893 – 14 August 1900 | |
Preceded by | Robert Hamilton |
Succeeded by | Arthur Havelock |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 June 1837 Gormanston Castle, County Meath, Ireland |
Died | 29 October 1907 Dublin, Ireland | (aged 70)
Spouse | Ismay Louisa Ursula Bellew & Georgina Jane Connellan |
Jenico William Joseph Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston, GCMG (1 June 1837 – 29 October 1907), was an aristocratic Anglo-Irish colonial administrator.
Born at Gormanston Castle, County Meath, he was son and heir of Edward Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston by his wife Lucretia, daughter of William Charles Jerningham.[1]
He joined the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1855, and served as a Lieutenant during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, before retiring from the British Army in 1860.
Jenico Preston then held the ceremonial posts of High Sheriff of County Dublin (1865), County Meath (1871) before being appointed Chamberlain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Marquess of Abercorn, between 1866 and 1868. He succeeded his father as viscount in 1876, and entered the House of Lords in the subsidiary title of Baron Gormanston, created for his father in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1868.
In 1885 Gormanston was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, a post he held until 1887, and then served as Governor of British Guiana from 1887 to 1893 and as Governor of Tasmania from 1893 to 1900.[2]
Lord Gormanston married firstly Hon. Ismay Louisa Ursula Bellew, daughter of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew, in 1861; they had no children. After his first wife's death in 1875 he married secondly Georgina Jane Connellan, daughter of Major Peter Connellan, in 1878; they had three sons and one daughter. Lord Gormanston died at Dublin in October 1907, aged 70, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Jenico Edward Joseph Preston, 15th Viscount Gormanston.[2]
See also
Notes
- ^ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
- ^ a b Davis, R. P. (1983). "Gormanston, 14th Viscount (1837 - 1907)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
Further reading
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2015 edition).
- 1837 births
- 1907 deaths
- 19th-century Irish people
- 20th-century Irish people
- Irish soldiers
- People from County Meath
- King's Royal Rifle Corps officers
- British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Governors of the Leeward Islands
- Governors of Tasmania
- Governors of British Guiana
- High Sheriffs of Meath
- High Sheriffs of County Dublin
- Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Colony of Tasmania people