Valentine Lord Cloncurry. Personal Recollections of the Life and Times … of Valentine Lord Cloncurry. With Extracts from the Correspondence. First Edition. Dublin, James McGlashan, 1849. 22 x 14 cm. xi, 510 pages, (2). Original dark green cloth. Elaborate blind decorations. Gilt decoration mon front board. Gilt title on spine. Yellow end papers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Name of previous owner on title page. Both hinges cracked, but binding remains sound. A few pencil annotations on rear free end paper. Internally clean with very mild foxing to a few pages. Overall a nice copy.

Valentine Brown Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry (1773 – 1853), was an Irish peer, politician and landowner. In the 1790s he was an emissary in radical and reform circles in London for the Society of United Irishmen and was twice detained on suspicion of sedition. He gained notoriety for his celebrated lawsuit for adultery against his former friend Sir John Piers, who had seduced Cloncurry’s first wife, Elizabeth Georgiana Morgan. He took up residence at Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare and, commensurate with his status as an Anglo-Irish lord, appeared to reconcile to the Dublin authorities. Lawless served as a Viceregal advisor and eventually gained a British peerage, but it was not as an Ascendancy loyalist. He pressed the case for admitting Catholics to parliament and for ending the universal imposition of Church of Ireland tithes.

• Keywords: Biography & Literary Criticism · Classical & Old Literature · History · History & Culture · History of Ireland · Ireland
• Language: English
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 104194AB

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