Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (29 September 1782 – 6 August 1850) was an Irish Peer.
Origin
The eldest son of Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, he was styled Lord Adare from 1816 to 1822 and Viscount Adare thereafter until he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1824. He took the additional surname of Wyndham, becoming Windham Wyndham-Quin, on 7 Apr. 1815.
Life
He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of County Limerick for life in 1818. He served as an MP for County Limerick in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1820.[1]
Marriage & progeny
On 27 December 1810 he married Caroline, daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan and Clearwell, Gloucestershire. They had the following children:
- Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1812–1871)
- Captain the Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham Quin (2 November 1829 – 1865), who on 24 January 1856 married Caroline, third daughter of Rear Admiral George Tyler, K.H., of Cottrell, Glamorgan, M.P., and had issue.
- Lady Anna Maria Charlotte Wyndham Quinn (November 1814 – 7 January 1855), who married William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly on 11 August 1836.
References
- ^ "QUIN (afterwards WYNDHAM QUIN), Windham Henry (1782-1850), of Adare, co. Limerick". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- Lodge, Edmund, Norroy King of Arms, &c., The Peerage of the British Empire & Baronetage, 27th edition, London, 1858, p. 203–4.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
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- 1782 births
- 1850 deaths
- Earls in the Peerage of Ireland
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Limerick constituencies (1801–1922)
- UK MPs 1806–07
- UK MPs 1807–12
- UK MPs 1812–18
- UK MPs 1818–20
- Irish representative peers
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- Peerage of Ireland earl stubs