Baron Rathdonnell, of Rathdonnell in the County of Donegal, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland

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. It was created in 1868 for John McClintock

John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell

John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell , was an Irish peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.-Biography:McClintock was appointed High Sheriff of Louth in 1840 and elected Member of Parliament for County Louth in 1857, a seat he held until 1859. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Louth...

, with remainder to the male issue of his deceased younger brother Captain William McClintock-Bunbury

William McClintock-Bunbury

Captain William Bunbury McClintock-Bunbury , known as William McClintock until 1846, was an Irish naval commander and Conservative politician....

 (who had represented County Carlow

Carlow County (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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). The barony of Rathdonnel was the second-last barony created in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Rathdonnell was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Baron, who sat in the House of Lords

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 as an Irish Representative Peer

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 from 1889 to 1929 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Carlow

Lord Lieutenant of Carlow

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 between 1890 and 1929. the title is held by the fifth Baron, the second Baron's great-grandson, who succeeded his father in 1959.

The Arctic explorer Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock

Francis Leopold McClintock

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 was the nephew of the first Baron.

The family seat is Lisnavagh House

Lisnavagh House

The Lisnavagh Estate lies jut outside the village of Rathvilly in Co.Carlow. Lisnavagh is the family seat of the Bunbury family, Barons Rathdonnell. The first known house at Lisnavagh is thought to have been built by William Bunbury in 1696 in the parklands below the existing house and there were...

 in Rathvilly

Rathvilly

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, Carlow

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, Ireland

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Barons Rathdonnell (1868)

• John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell
  John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell
  John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell , was an Irish peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.-Biography:McClintock was appointed High Sheriff of Louth in 1840 and elected Member of Parliament for County Louth in 1857, a seat he held until 1859. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Louth...
  
   (1798–1879)
• Thomas Kane McClintock-Bunbury, 2nd Baron Rathdonnell (1848–1929)
• Thomas Leopold McClintock-Bunbury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell (1881–1937)
• William Robert McClintock-Bunbury, 4th Baron Rathdonnell (1914–1959)
• Thomas Benjamin McClintock-Bunbury, 5th Baron Rathdonnell (b. 1938)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. William Leopold McClintock-Bunbury (b. 1966)