Arthur Annesley, 10th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 10th Viscount Valentia (30 November 1785 - 30 December 1863) was an English-born land-owner, an Irish peer and the Premier Baronet of Ireland.

Family

Arthur Annesley was born on 30 November 1785, the eldest son of Arthur Annesley, MP for Oxford between 1790 and 1796, and his wife, Catherine Hardy, a daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy. He was a male-line, paternal descendent of the first Viscount Valentia.^[1]

He married, on 12 August 1808, Eleanor O'Brien, the daughter of Henry O'Brien (later Stafford-O'Brien) of Blatherwycke park, Northamptonshire and his wife Margaret Flenary.^[2] Together, they had thirteen children, four sons and nine daughters:

• The Honourable Arthur Annesley (1809 - 1844). He married, in 1836, Flora-Mary Macdonald, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonald,^[3] and had issue, two daughters and one son:
  • Mary Annesley (1836 - 1879), who married, on 24 February 1855, Captain Walter Chidiock Nangle, and had issue.^[4]
  • Flora Annesley (born 1841), who married, on 23 June 1863, Colonel Francis Lyon, and had issue.^[5]
  • Lieutenant Arthur Annesley, eleventh Viscount Annesley KCVO CB JP (1843 - 1927), who inherited the title from his grandfather, and who served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1874, as MP for Oxford from 1895 to 1917, and Comptroller of the Household from 1898 to 1905.^[6]
• Temple Arthur Francis Annesley (1813 - 1838).^[7]
• The Honourble Charles Arthur James George Annesley (born 1820).^[8]
• Captain The Honourble Algernon Sydney Arthur Annesley (born 1829), was an officer in the Oxfordshire Militia, and married, on 11 October 1864, Helen Sydney Richards, a daughter of Griffiths Richards QC., and had issue^[9]
• Ellen Arthur Frances Annesley (died 1811), a twin with her sister,^[10]
• Catherine Arthur Letitia Annesley (died 1811).^[11]
• The Honourble Elearnor Arthur Catherine Annesley.^[12]
• The Honourble Frances Arthur Charlotte Annesley, who married, on 17 October 1853, Captain William Linskill of Tynemouth Lodge, Northumberland, and had issue.^[13]
• The Honourble Matilda Arthur Marina Annesley, who married, on 10 July 1845, John Kent Egerton Holmes, and had issue.^[14]
• The Honourble Eva Arthur Henry Medora Annesley, who married, on 12 January 1853, Sir Henry Robinson, first Baronet, KCB, sometime Vice-President of the Local Government Board of Ireland, and had issue.^[15]
• The Honourble Nea Arthur Ada Rose d'Amour Annesley, who married, on 24 April 1846, Hercules George Robert Robinson, first Baron Rosmead, GCMG, a Governor of Hong Kong, and had issue.^[16]
• The Honourble Augusta Arthur Constantia Annesley.^[17]
• The Honourble Altisidora Arthur Victoria Annesley.^[18]

Titles

On the death of the ninth Viscount Valentia, who had no immediate relatives, Annesley, being a very distant cousin, assumed the peerage, which had been created in 1642,^[19] without attempting to establish this right in the House of Lords. Cokayne points out that he was "probably correct" in assuming the peerage.^[20] He also assumed the title of Baron Mountnorris, another Irish peerage, which was also held by the ninth Viscount,^[21] and was the Premier Baronet of Ireland, inheriting also the Annesley Baronetcy, of Newport Pagnell.^[22]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Arthur Annesley, 10th Viscount Valentia
4. Arthur Annesley[23]               2. Arthur Annesley                       5. Elizabeth Baldwyn[24]               1. Arthur Annesley, 10th Viscount Valentia                             6. Admiral Sir Charles Hardy[25]               3. Catherine Hardy                       7. Catherine Stanyon[26]

Later life

Lord Valentia died on 30 December 1863 at Bletchingdon park, aged 78. His wife had predeceased him, having died on 10 June 1843.^[27]

References

Citations

1. Cokayne (1898), p. 16 ; the descent being thus: this Arthur Annesley, born 1785, was the son of Arthur Annesley, son of Rev. Francis Annesley, Rector of Winwick, son of Francis Annesley, son of the Hon. Francis Annesley, sixth son of Arthur Annesley, first Viscount Valentia.
2. Cokayne (1898), p. 16 ; Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Cokayne notes that Miss O'Brien was a "da. (or reputed da.)", implying illegitimacy.
3. Lodge (1861), p. 575
4. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 239
5. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 239
6. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Who Was Who, 1929 (St Martin's Press), p. 1066
7. Lodge (1861), p. 575
8. Lodge (1861), p. 575
9. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 239
10. Lodge (1861), p. 575
11. Lodge (1861), p. 575
12. Lodge (1861), p. 575
13. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 238
14. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 239
15. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 239
16. Lodge (1861), p. 575 ; Ruvigny (1907), p. 239
17. Lodge (1861), p. 575
18. Lodge (1861), p. 575
19. Cokayne (1898), p. 13 ; this was the second creation, the first, to Sir Henry Power became extinct upon his death in 1642, as Cokayne shows.
20. Cokayne (1898), p. 16
21. Cokayne (1898), p. 16
22. Lodge (1861), p. 575
23. Cokayne (1898), p. 16
24. Burke (1834), p. 9
25. Cokayne (1898), p. 16
26. Davies (2004) ; Gwyn (1979) only mentions that there were children of the second marriage to Miss Stanyon ; the parish register for her baptism has been microfilmed by the Family History Library (Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C13550-7, GS Film number: 1042308, Reference ID: 2:3T1DRXB)
27. Cokayne (1898), p. 16

Bibliography

• Burke, J. (1834), vol. 1
• Cokayne, G.E. (1898), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, first edition, volume 8 (U to Z).
• Davies, J.D. (2004) "Hardy, Sir Charles, the younger (bap. 1717, d. 1780)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Gwyn, J. (1979). "Hardy, Sir Charles", Dictionary of Canadian Biography (volume iv).
• Lodge, E. (1861). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire.
• Ruvigny (Marquess de) (1907). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, "Exeter" volume