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    Sir Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (1559 – 30 December 1630) was an English soldier and politician who became Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was the...
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    Viscount Grandison, of Limerick, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1620 for Sir Oliver St John, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was...
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    titles of Viscount St John and Baron St John in the same peerage. John St John (1585–1648) was the nephew of Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (1559–1630)...
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  • 1591–1658) Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (c. 1560–1630) William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (1614–1643) John Villiers, 3rd Viscount Grandison (died...
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  • John St John and Anne Leighton, with his mother dying while giving birth to him. His great uncle was Sir Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison, who was...
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    William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (1614 – 23 September 1643) was an Irish peer and Royalist soldier who was fatally wounded during the First English...
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  • (1522–1582), English peer Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso (1540–1618), English politician Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (1559–1630), English...
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    Tandragee Castle are: 1610: Sir Oliver St. John, 1st Viscount Grandison 1630: Sir John St. John, 1st Baronet 1648: Henry St John of Tandragee Robert Sparrow...
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    John St John (died c. 1482), was the ancestor of the Viscounts Grandison and the Viscounts Bolingbroke and St John. Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of...
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    St John was made the first Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712. Grandison had yellow as its identifier. Commemorating Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison...
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    Earl. In 1766, he succeeded his second cousin John Villiers, 1st Earl Grandison, as sixth Viscount Grandison through a special remainder in the letters patent...
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    John, was created the first Viscount Grandison in 1620.[citation needed] His children were:[citation needed] Oliver St John (1612/1613 – November 1641...
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  • Elder & Co. pp. 64–67. Wagner, John, Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World, Oryx, 1999, p. 252 Wagner, John, Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan...
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    child of Lord Grandison and a future royal mistress of King Charles II, was christened in the church on 27 November 1640. Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax...
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  • the Parliament 1613–1615 and was knighted by Lord Deputy Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison in 1622 on his last day in office. Burke's Peerage (1915)...
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  • first half of the seventeenth century. He was Chaplain to Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison, Lord Deputy of Ireland and Rector of Ardrahan. He was appointed...
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    Sir John Travers 1559–1587: Edward Maria Wingfield 1588: Sir George Carew 1592: Sir George Bourchier 1605: Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison 1614:...
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  • 1616–1625: Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester 1625–1630: Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison 1631–1643: Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork 1643–1660: Interregnum...
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  • of reform were quickly dashed, as Chichester's successor Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison, continued the policy of persecuting recusants, especially...
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  • p. 168, line 33. "1615, 2 July / 30 Aug. / Sir Oliver St John, L.D. [Lord Deputy] (aft. Lord Grandison)" Fryde et al. 1986, p. 44, line 16. "Charles I...
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    children. Villiers' wife was the niece of Oliver St John, created Viscount Grandison on 3 January 1612. Grandison had no issue, and Villiers' half-brother...
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  • St John-Mildmay baronets. see Viscount Bolingbroke see Baron St John of Bletso Sir Francis St John, 1st Baronet (c. 1680–1756) Title extinct. see St John-Mildmay...
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  • Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford 1685: George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison 1689: Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester 1702: William Cavendish...
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    1559 Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso (d. 1582) John St John, 2nd Baron St John of Bletso (d. 1596) Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso...
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    Deputy Oliver St John knighted him in 1620. In 1628 Charles I, King of Ireland, England, and Scotland, created him Baron Blarney and Viscount Muskerry...
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  • 1624, when Oliver St John, 4th Baron St John of Bletso, was created Earl of Bolingbroke. His eldest son and heir apparent, Oliver St John, was in 1641...
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    "Consecrated by Bishop Bronescombe in 1260. Altered and added to by Bishop Grandison circa 1330. Mainly Early English ... 2 towers above transepts .... The...
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    anything else. Persecution of recusants continued under Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (Lord Deputy 1616–22), and was a major factor in his recall...
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  • p. 168, line 33. "1615, 2 July / 30 Aug. / Sir Oliver St John, L.D. [Lord Deputy] (aft. Lord Grandison)" Fryde et al. 1986, p. 44, line 16. "Charles I...
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  • Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant. Vol. 1–8 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. Cracroft-Brennan, Patrick. "Cracroft's...
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