Jenico Preston, 7th Viscount Gormanston
Jenico Preston, 7th Viscount Gormanston (born at
Irish peer, Jacobite
soldier and landowner.
Life
The elder son of
Royalist and Confederate forces were defeated by Cromwell's forces. The Gormanston estates, held by his father before the Irish Rebellion of 1641, were restored to him in 1660 upon the Stuart Restoration.[1]
Royal Charter,[1] Viscount Gormanston served as Lord Lieutenant of Meath
(1689–1691).
A member of the
Commissioner of the Treasury in 1690.[3]
Promoted
lieutenant-colonel in the Irish Army, Lord Gormanston served at the battles of Cavan and the Boyne in 1690. On 17 March 1691 during the Siege of Limerick, the 7th Viscount died leaving no male heir, thus was succeeded in the family title by his nephew, Jenico Preston (1640–1697) as de jure 8th Viscount.[4]
Married twice, firstly to Lady Frances Leke (who died without issue in 1682), daughter of Francis Leke, 1st Earl of Scarsdale, and by his second wife, Margaret Molyneux, daughter of Caryll, 3rd Viscount Molyneux, Lord Gormanston had an only daughter, Mary Preston (who married her cousin, Anthony Preston, de jure 9th Viscount Gormanston).[5]
Posthumously indicted for
viscountcy was thereby attainted
(later restored in 1800).
See also
- Gormanston Castle
- Lodge's Peerage of Ireland
References
- ^ a b c Bergin, John (October 2009). "Preston, Nicholas". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
- ^ Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ Burke, Bernard, Sir. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. (London: Harrison, 1869), p.500.
- ^ www.burkespeerage.com
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