Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally...
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male of the Kirkaldy family The Antrim Earldom was granted, under special remainder to Randal William McDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim and 1st Earl of Antrim...
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Marquess of Antrim (1609–1683) was a Roman Catholic landed magnate in Scotland and Ireland, son of the 1st Earl of Antrim. He was also chief of Clan MacDonnell...
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(O'Neill) Earl of Tyrone ..." Cokayne 1910, p. 174–179. "Genealogies of the Earls of Antrim" Cokayne 1896, p. 448–470."Genealogies of the Earls of Tyrone"...
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Randall MacSorley MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim, PC (Ire) (died 10 December 1636), rebelled together with Tyrone and Tyrconnell in the Nine Years' War...
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Earl of Antrim DL (1878–1933) was an Irish landowner and peer, known as Viscount Dunluce until 1918. Antrim was born at St James's Palace, the son of...
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1961. In 1965, Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim, along with some other Irish peers, petitioned the House of Lords to recognise their right to elect representatives...
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Randal Alexander McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim DL (born 2 July 1967), previously known as Viscount Dunluce, is a Northern Irish landowner, with an estate...
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Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim, FRSA (3 February 1935 – 21 July 2021), known as Alexander Dunluce, was a landowner, hereditary peer...
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The MacDonnells of Antrim (Gaelic: Mac Domhnaill), also known as the MacDonnells of the Glens, are a branch in Ireland of the Scottish-based Clan Donald...
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married in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace on 1 June 1875 the 6th Earl of Antrim. They had three children: Lady Sybil Mary McDonnell (26 March 1876 –...
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Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim. Lady Katherine Manners was the only daughter of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, by his first wife, Frances...
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County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, from Irish Aontroim, meaning 'lone ridge') is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within...
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Somerled McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim KBE (1911–1977) was a diplomat, activist, soldier and administrator. He became chairman of the National Trust in...
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O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, Donald McCarthy, 1st Earl of Clancare, Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim and Hugh...
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Dunluce Castle (category Castles in County Antrim)
of the residence building collapsed into the sea. The east, west and south walls still stand. Dunluce Castle served as the seat of the Earl of Antrim...
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This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It does not include extant...
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First Earl of Antrim, in the Peerage of Ireland. Randal MacDonnell, 1609–1683 Second Earl of Antrim, and first Marquess of Antrim, in the Peerage of Ireland...
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Glenarm Castle (category Castles in County Antrim)
Glenarm Castle, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is the ancestral home of the Earl of Antrim. There has been a castle at Glenarm since the 13th...
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MacDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim by his second wife Anne, daughter of Charles Patrick Plunkett. As Viscount Dunluce he sat in the Irish House of Commons for...
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Randal MacDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim (1680–1721) was an Irish aristocrat. His parents were Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim and Helena Burke. He...
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Marquess of Londonderry. Frances Anne was the only child of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Anne MacDonnell, 2nd Countess of Antrim. At her...
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Cokayne 1910, pp. 174–179. "Genealogies of the Earls of Antrim" Cokayne 1896, pp. 448–470."Genealogies of the Earls of Tyrone" Morgan 2014. Brady 2015, p. 29...
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Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim PC (Ire) (1615 – June 1699) was a Catholic peer and military commander in Ireland. He fought together with his...
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Glenarm (category Glens of County Antrim)
Arma 'valley of the army') is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies on the North Channel coast north of the town of Larne and the village of Ballygalley...
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Anne Bowes-Lyon (category House of Glücksburg (Denmark))
cousin of Elizabeth II. Born into the Bowes-Lyon family, she married Thomas Anson, Viscount Anson, and had two children, Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield...
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for each Irish province. He ordered Alexander MacDonnell, Earl of Antrim, a Catholic nobleman of Scottish origin, to raise the Ulster regiment. MacDonnell...
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Deputy, thanks to the influence of his relation the Earl of Antrim. Shortly before the rebellion, O'Neill evicted some of his Gaelic tenants near Kinard...
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Robert Lundy (category History of Derry (city))
Boys of Derry shut the gates of the city against "a regiment of twelve hundred Papists, commanded by a Papist, Alexander Macdonnell, Earl of Antrim", who...
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Gabriella Wilde (category English people of Dutch descent)
Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon, General the Hon. Thomas Gage, and Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the first native-born Mayor of New York City. Wilde's...
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