Francis Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley

Francis Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley (27 November 1740 – 19 December 1802) was an

Anglo-Irish

politician and peer.

He was the son of

Viscount Glerawly and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.^[1] On 17 August 1789, Annesley was created Earl Annesley, of Castlewellan in the County of Down, in the Peerage of Ireland. The earldom was created with special remainder to his brother, Richard, as Annesley had no legitimate children.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b The Pocket Peerage of England, Scotland Et Ireland, Volume 2 (1790), 191.
^ Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage - 'Annesley, Earl (I, 1789)' http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/annesley1789.htm

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Bowen Southwell Cromwell Price	Member of Parliament for Downpatrick 1761–1770 With: Mathew Forde	Succeeded by Mathew Forde Clotworthy Rowley
Peerage of Ireland
New creation	Earl Annesley 1789–1802	Succeeded by Richard Annesley
Preceded by William Annesley	Viscount Glerawly 1770–1802	Succeeded by Richard Annesley

[peerage-1] The Pocket Peerage of England, Scotland Et Ireland, Volume 2 (1790), 191.

[2] Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage - 'Annesley, Earl (I, 1789)' http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/annesley1789.htm

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