William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick KP, PC, DL

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, JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (17 January 1840–8 August 1896), styled Viscount Glentworth until 1866, was an Irish peer

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 and Conservative

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 politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

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 under Lord Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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 between 1889 and 1892 and again between 1895 and his death in 1896. In 1892 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick.

Background

Limerick was the son of William Pery, 2nd Earl of Limerick, by his first wife Susanna, daughter of William Sheaffe. His mother died when he was one year old.

Political career

Lord Limerick succeeded his father in the earldom in 1866 and took his seat on the Conservative

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 benches in the House of Lords

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. When the Conservatives came to power under Lord Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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 in 1886, he was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting

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. In 1889 he was promoted to Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

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, a post he held until 1892, and again between 1895 and his death in 1896. In 1889 he was sworn of the Privy Council. Limerick was also a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 and Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 and an aide-de-camp

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 to Queen Victoria

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. In 1892 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick.

Family

Lord Limerick was twice married. He married firstly his cousin, Caroline Maria, daughter of Reverend Henry Gray, on 28 August 1862. They had one child, William Pery, 4th Earl of Limerick. Caroline died on 24 January 1877. Limerick married secondly Isabella, daughter of James Charles Henry Colquhoun, on 20 October 1877. They had several children, including Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick

Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick

Colonel Edmund Colquhoun Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, GBE CH KCB DSO TD was a British peer and soldier.Pery was the eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Limerick and his second wife, Isabella, and was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford...

. Lord Limerick died in August 1896, aged 56, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son from his first marriage, William. The Countess of Limerick married Major Sir Edmund Halbert Elliot in 1898 and died in November 1927.