1868, House of Lords, London, Election of Lord Headley as a Representative Peer for Ireland in the Room of the later Earl of Bantry, deceased, with the Certificate of the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland annexed Thereto. Election 1869 on Death of the Earl of Wicklow of the Earl of Bantry as a Representative Peter for Ireland.
The Whites of Bantry were ennobled for their part in resisting the French Attempted Invasion 1706.
| 1868 | Richard White, Earl of Bantry | Bantry House and Thomas Hotel, Berkeley Square, London | Widower Bantry and Thomas Hotel, Berkeley Square, London administration to William Henry Hare White Hedges, brother one of the executors, Bantry House and Macroom Castle effects under £90,000 | http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014888/005014888_00017.pdf |
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