8U BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. and d. 15tb May, 1748, having by lier (whose will was prored 28th May, 1761) had issue, I. Richard, of whom presently. II. Robert, heir to his brother. I. Anabella, d. 28th September, 1766, (narble bust and tablet in St. Francis Abbey, Galway). II. Bridget, m. Macnamara Morgan, M.P. of Monksfield, and Kiicornan, CO. Galway, and had issue. The elder son, Richard Martin, of Birch Hall, and Dangan, Lord of Clare, m. Mabel, the beautiful and celebrated daughter (see Caro- ian's Foeins) of Edmond Eblly, of Fidane Castle, CO. Galway (by Margery, his wife, daughter of Ulick Boueke, of Colmunstown, CO. Galway), and sister of the Right Hon. Thomas Kelly, P.C, Prime Serjeant of Ire- land, afterwards Justice of the Common Pleas. He d. intestate and administration was gi'anted 10th September, 1768, as next of kin, to his brother, Robert Martin, of Birch Hall, Dangar, and Balliuahinch Castle, Lord of Clare, i. 1714, took out a Protestant ceitificate to hold his estates, but was neTcrtheless the active head of the Roman Catholic party in West Connaught, and a strong Jacobite and a remarkable swordsman {see Burke's Con- navght Circnit). He m. first, 6th April, 1753, Hon. Bridget Baknewall, third daughter of John, eleventh Lord Trimles- TON {see Burke's Peerage), and by her, who d. 2nd February, 1762, had issue, I. Richard, of whom presently. I. Mary, m. 4th November, 1775, Patrick D'Aecy, of KiltuUa, co. Galwav, (cousin of John D'Akoy, of Clifden Ca«tle), who d. s. p. 2nd February, 1804. She d. 1813. He )». secondly, 21st January, 1769, Eliza- beth, daughter of Lynch, and widow of the Rev. John Tesey (grandson of the Arch- bishop of Tuam), and d, 7th August, 1794, having by her (who d. 30t.h September, 1808) had issue, II. Robert, of Bushy Park, co. Galway, Captain in the Marquis of Downshire's Regiment of Militia, b. 19th March, 1770, m. 5th October, 1806, Mary, only daughter of Sir John O'Flaher- tie, Knt., of Lemonfield, eo. Galway, and d. 20tb May, 1810, having by her (who d. 30th September, 1833) had issue, Robert John, of Bushy Park, M.A., T.C.D., h. 14lh April, 1813, m. first, 19th Jiinuary, 1834, Eliza, daugh- ter qf Daniel 1 eeson, of the 7th D.G. and by her (who d. 7th March, 1854) had issue, Thomas Henry Robert, h. 16th August, 1835, d. 21st August, 1843. He m. secondly, 30th July, 1856, Emily, daughter of William Houston, of Houston, co. Renfrew. She d. s. p. 3rd February, 1872. He d. 13th January, 1892. III. Anthony Crosby, of Dangan, co. Galway, and afterwards of Wellfield, CO. Dublin, b. 1st April, 1771, )«. at Gretna Green, 1801, Mario Elizabeth Alleyne, only daughter of His Excel- lency Jean Pierre Etienne de L'Espin- asse, Governor of Dutch Guiana, Essequebo, Demerara, and Berbice, and d. at Dinan, France, 21st August, 1816, having by lier (who d. at Paris in the same year) had issue, 1. Robert Anthony, *. 20th March, 1803, went to Texas in 1836, sup- posed to have been killed in the war shortlv after. 2. John L'Espinasse, b. 1811, Mid- shipman R.N. d. s. p. at Dangan, 1829, from the effects of a fall on the Flagship " Semiramis " in Cork harbour. 3. Anthony, of Dangan Cottage, near Chiltern, Victoria, b. 5th November, 1815, m. llih Septem- ber, 1851, Margaret, third daugh- ter of Robert Goodwin, of Ash- burue, Derbyshire, and w'idow of Captain Hector Macquarie, nephew of Major-General Mac- quarie, the Australian Governor. Slie d. s. p. 14th March, 1889. 1. Elizabeth Maria, d. itiiin. 2. Mary, m. 16th August, 1823, William Kelly de Wilton, and had issue. 3. Louisa Alleyne, d. unm. 4. Marianne Bridget d. nnm. 5. Henrietta Buckstone. 6. Jidia Jemima, m. Thomas Webb Goodwin, son of Robert, afore- said, and d. 1886, leaving issue. 7. Georgina Harriett, m. 17th Sept., 1870, Signor Bartolomeo Pereito. The eldest son, Richard Martin, of Dangan and Bal- liuahinch Castle, Li rd of Clare, called " Humanity," for many years M.P. for Galway, J.P., high sheriff co. Galway, 1782. He was the well-know^n and benevolent author of the Act for the prevention of cru- elty to animals, called " Dick Martin's Act," and was the principal founder of the Royal Society for that purpose {see Dictionary of National Biographg). He was Colonel of the Galway Volunteers, and of his troop of Yeomanry, and was the first of the family educated in the Protestant religion, due to his father's desire that he should enter Parli iment to work for the emancipation of the Catholics, which he did. He was b. February, 1754, and m. first, 8th February, 1777, Elizabeth, daughter of George Veset, of Lucan, co. Dublin, son of the Right Hon. Agmon-lisham Vesey, and grandson of the Archbishop of Tuani, and by her had issue, I. St. George, b. 1778, d. aged 14. II. Thomas Barnewall, of Dangan and Ballinaliineh Castle, Lord of Clare, M.P. for Galway, J. P. and D.L. for that CO., served in the Connaught Rangers at the assault of Badajos, with great bravery, b. 4th Oct , 1786, m. 14th Feb , 1814, Julia, second daughter of Patrick KiRWAN, of Dalgin
