John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore PC

Privy Council of Ireland

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, FRS

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 (25 May 1753 – 23 October 1815), styled Viscount Crosbie between 1777 and 1781, was an Irish politician and judge.

Crosbie was the only surviving son of William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore

William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore

William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore , known as The Lord Brandon between 1762 and 1771 and as The Viscount Crosbie between 1771 and 1776, was an Irish politician....

, by his first wife Lady Theodosia, daughter of John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

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. In 1775 he was returned to the Irish House of Commons

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 for Athboy

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. The following year he was elected for both Tralee

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 and Ardfert

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. He chose to sit for the latter, and held the seat until 1781, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the Irish House of Lords

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. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council

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 in 1785. In 1789 he was appointed Joint Master of the Rolls in Ireland

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 alongside the Earl of Carysfort

John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort

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. The both held the post until 1801. In 1800 he was elected as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers

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 to sit in the House of Lords

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.

Lord Glandore was married in London

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 in 1771 by Frederick Cornwallis

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, Archbishop of Canterbury

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, to the Honourable Diana, daughter of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville

George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville

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. The marriage was childless. She died in August 1814, aged 58. Lord Glandore survived her by a year and died in October 1815, aged 62. The earldom and viscountcy of Crosbie became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the Barony of Brandon by his cousin William Crosbie.