Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet
Life
Blennerhassett was the son of Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, 3rd Baronet, whose ancestors had settled in Kerry under
Blennerhasset sat as a Liberal
In October 1901 he was awarded an
Family
He met Countess Charlotte Julia von Leyden and married her the same year on 9 June 1870. His wife was a noted biographer.[4]
He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Arthur Charles Francis Bernard Blennerhassett. [2] His only daughter, Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne Blennerhassett, married Baron Raphael d'Erlanger[4] and later Sir Henry Galway.
Blennerhassett went bankrupt in 1895; the family wealth lost, subsequent generations had to earn a living- his son and heir, the 5th baronet, was in the Colonial Service, the 6th baronet was an engineer, and the 7th baronet trained as a geologist, was the "front man for a foreign-owned investment firm in the City", and sold computer systems from his Chiswick home.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. pp. 121–122.
- ^ a b c Lathbury 1912.
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36596. London. 26 October 1901. p. 7.
- ^ a b D. C. Lathbury, 'Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland, fourth baronet (1839–1909)’, rev. Josef L. Altholz, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Jan 2016
- ^ The Nouveau Pauvres: A Guide to Downward Mobility, Nicholas Monson, Debra Scott, Quartet, 1984, p. 31
References
- Lathbury, Daniel Conner (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Lundy, Daryl (ed.). "Copy of the Obituary The Times". thePeerage.com. p. e371. Retrieved 1 June 2007.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- "p. 16875". Retrieved 18 June 2007.