Earl of Portarlington
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Peerage of Ireland
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. It was created in 1785 for John Dawson, 2nd Viscount Carlow, who had earlier represented Portarlington
Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Portarlington was a parliamentary borough partly in King's County but mostly in Queen's County...
in the Irish House of Commons
Irish House of Commons
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. He was the son of William Dawson, who had represented Portarlington and Queen's County
Queen's County (UK Parliament constituency)
Queen's County was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801–1885 and one in 1918–1922.-Boundaries:This constituency comprised the whole of Queen's County now known as County Laois, except for the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington 1801–1885.- MPs...
in the Irish House of Commons, and had been created Baron Dawson, of Dawson's Court in the Queen's County, in 1770, and Viscount Carlow, in the County of Carlow, in 1776. These titles were also in the Peerage of Ireland. The first Earl was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He was a Colonel in the 23rd Dragoons and fought at the Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Waterloo
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. In 1808 Lord Portarlington succeeded to the estates of George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester.
He never married and was succeeded by his nephew, the third Earl. He was the son of Captain the Hon. Henry Dawson, second son of the first Earl, who had assumed by Sign Manual the additional surname of Damer. Lord Portarlington sat in the House of Lords
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as an Irish Representative Peer
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from 1855 to 1889. On his death the titles passed to his cousin, the fourth Earl. He was the son of Colonel the Hon. George Dawson-Damer
George Dawson-Damer
Colonel the Hon. George Lionel Dawson-Damer was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background:Dawson-Damer was a younger son of John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington, and Lady Caroline, daughter of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.-Political career:Dawson-Damer was returned to...
, third son of the first Earl. Lord Portarlington represented Portarlington
Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)
Portarlington was a rotten borough and is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801....
in the House of Commons
British House of Commons
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as a Conservative
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. He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Earl. He was an Irish Representative Peer from 1896 to 1900. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the seventh Earl, who succeeded his grandfather in 1959. He is the son of George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow, proprietor of the Corvinus Press
Corvinus Press
The Corvinus Press was a private press established by George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow in Red Lion Court, off Fleet Street, London in early 1936. Carlow was a keen book-collector, amateur linguist and typographer, and ran the Press purely as a hobby, with the help of a press-man...
, who was killed in action in 1944.
The ancestral seat of the Earls of Portarlington was Emo Court
Emo Court
Emo Court, located near the village of Emo in County Laois, Ireland, is a large neo-classical mansion, formal and symmetrical in its design and with beautifully proportioned rooms inside. It was designed by the architect James Gandon in 1790 for John Dawson, the first Earl of Portarlington. It is...
, Co Laois, in the Republic of Ireland.
The estate was sold to the Irish Land Commission in 1920.
Viscounts Carlow (1776)
- William Henry Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow (1712–1779)
- John Dawson, 2nd Viscount Carlow (1744–1798) (created Earl of Portarlington in 1785)
Earls of Portarlington (1785)
- John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington (1744–1798)
- John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington (1781–1845)
- Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of PortarlingtonHenry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of PortarlingtonHenry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington KP was an Irish peer. He became Earl of Portarlington in 1845 on the death of his uncle John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 8 February 1879....
(1822–1889) - Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of PortarlingtonLionel Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of PortarlingtonLionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington , known as Lionel Dawson-Damer until 1889, was a British peer and Conservative politician.-Background:...
(1832–1892) - George Lionel Henry Seymour Dawson-Damer, 5th Earl of Portarlington (1858–1900)
- Lionel Arthur Henry Seymour Dawson-Damer, 6th Earl of Portarlington (1883–1959)
- George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (1907–1944)
- George Lionel Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington (b. 1938)
The heir apparent
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is the present holder's son Charles George Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (b. 1965)
The heir apparent
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of the heir apparent
Heir apparent
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is his son Henry Dawson-Damer (b. 2009)