James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford

James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford (31 March 1811 - 20 November 1887) DL, of Meenglas, County Donegal, was Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Donegal.[1]

Family

He was born on 31 March 1811 at Merrion Square, Dublin, the son of James Hewitt, 3rd Viscount Lifford and the Hon. Mary Ann Maude. He married Lady Mary Acheson, daughter of Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford and Mary Sparrow, on 9 July 1835. The children from this marriage were:

Lady Mary died in March 1850.

Secondly he married Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, daughter of Reverend John Digby Wingfield Digby, on 9 December 1851. There was one child from this marriage:

St. Anne's Church of Ireland, Monnellan, Crossroads, Killygordon, the burial place of James Hewitt

He died on 20 November 1887. He is buried in St Anne's Church of Ireland, Monnellan, Crossroads, Killygordon.

Career

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.

His estates comprised 11,000 acres at Meenglas, Ballybofey.

He was Deputy Lieutenant of County Donegal. He was High Sheriff of Donegal from 1841 - 1845.

He was Chairman of the Finn Valley Railway around 1860.[2]

He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1856 to 1887.

Publications

References

  1. The Plantagenet roll of the blood royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994
  2. Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide, and official directory. W. J. Adams, 1864
Political offices
Preceded by
The Viscount de Vesci
Irish Representative Peer for Ireland
1856–1887
Succeeded by
The Earl of Wicklow
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