Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore
Colonel Standish Darby O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore (26 December 1792 – 22 July 1848) from Cahir Guillamore,
Biography
O'Grady was born on 26 December 1792, the eldest son of
Military career
O'Grady was commissioned into the British army as an
The next day at the Battle of Waterloo he was stationed on the ground above Hougoumont on the British right. He wrote in a letter to his father just after the battle:[3]
The 7th had an opportunity of showing what they could do if they got fair play. We charged twelve or fourteen times, and once cut off a squadron of
Marshal de Logis, whom I sent to the rear.
Two letters of his to Captain William Siborne, describing the movements of his regiments on 17 and 18 June 1815, are printed in Waterloo Letters, edited by Major-General H. T. Siborne (London, 1891, pp. 130–6).[1] His military career continued in fits and starts. After Waterloo, he was promoted to captain, but was put into the reserves ("on
Political career
He was defeated on his first attempt in 1818 but was elected in 1820 as
After the death of Thomas Lloyd in 1829, O'Grady was again returned for County Limerick on 2 February 1830, this time with the support of Daniel O'Connell. His support was firm with his Catholic constituents by this stage but on 3 May his name was struck from the electoral return and replaced with that of James Dawson, previously the MP for Clonmel. O'Grady was returned unopposed later that year in the general election.[2] Despite a strong challenge by a Repeal candidate in the 1832 general election he was again returned. In the 1835 election he retired and was replaced by William Smith O'Brien.[4]
Later life
He succeeded to the peerage as Viscount Guillamore on 21 April 1840 on the death of his father, the 1st Viscount.[2]
O'Grady died suddenly in Dublin on 22 July 1848.[5][1]
Family
On 16 October 1828,[6] he married Gertrude-Jane (died 1871), daughter of Berkeley Paget and Sophia Bucknall.[7][8] Among their children were:[9][10]
- Honourable Sophia O'Grady (b.1829), who married in 1862 Edward Wilmot Williams, JP, DL (b1826), an officer in the Begal Cavalry
- Honourable Gertrude O'Grady (b.1831), who married in 1855 Colonel Thomas C. Norbury, CB (d.1899), and left issue
- Standish (1832–1860), third Viscount Guillamore,[1][11] who left a daughter:
- Honourable Cecilia O'Grady (b.1855), who married in 1877 Edward Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy (1850–1920)
- Honourable Kathleen Elanor Henrietta O'Grady (b.1834), who married in 1855 James H. August Steuart (d.1895)
- Paget Standish (1835–1877) fourth Viscount Guillamore[1]
- Honourable Reginald Grimston Standish O'Grady (d.1874), who married in 1867 Frances Arabella Beresford, daughter of Rt Hon. William Beresford
- Hardress Standish (1841–1918) fifth Viscount Guillamore, unmarried[1]
- Honourable Annabel O'Grady (b.1843), who married in 1873 Hugh Melvil Freeling (d.1906), of the Freeling baronets (a grandson of the 1st Baronet)
- Frederick Standish (1847–1927) sixth Viscount Guillamore, who married in 1881 Mary Theresa Burdett Coventry, daughter of Hon. William James Coventry, who was son of George Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g O'Donoghue 1895, p. 52.
- ^ a b c d e Farrell 2009.
- ^ O'Donoghue 1895, p. 52 cites "letter in possession of the Hon. Mrs. Norbury"
- ^ "O'GRADY, Standish (1792-1848), of Mount Prospect, co. Limerick". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ "News of the Week". West Kent Guardian. 29 July 1848. Retrieved 25 December 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Dalton 1904, p. 67.
- ^ Mosley 1999, p. 76
- ^ Burke 1832, p. 555.
- ^ "Frederick Standish O'Grady, 6th Viscount Guillamore". Geni. 20 April 1847. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Whitaker′s Peerage, 1907
- ^ Pine 1972, p. 139
References
- Burke, John (1832), A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, p. 555
- Dalton, Charles (1904), The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode
- Farrell, Stephen (2009), "O'Grady, Standish (1792-1848), of Mount Prospect, co. Limerick.", in Fisher, D.R. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, Cambridge University Press
- Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999), Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, vol. 1 (106th in 2 volumes ed.), Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), p. 76
- Pine, L. G. (1972), The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms, London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, p. 139
Attribution:
- O'Donoghue, David James (1895), Lee, Sidney (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42, London: Smith, Elder & Co, pp. 51–52 , in
Further reading
- Jupp, P. J. (1986), "Co. Limerick", in Thorne, R. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, Boydell and Brewer