6 BRANDON. BRANDON [co. Kilkenny]. Earldom [I.] 1. Ellis, Dow. Baroness Atiienry [I.], was, on 15 Sep. 1758, a: COUNTESS OF BUANDON, co. Kilkenny for lip: 1. 1(00, g]j e wnB ] s t c ] a t ,f J umt .s Aoar of Gowran Castle, oo. Kilkenny, by to STary, his 2nd wife, da. of Sir Henry Wfmyss of Danrafort. in that 17S0 '"• She?n. firstly, March 1726, Theobald (IN'IRKk), 7th VJSCOUHI JIavo [I.], who (/. B.p.B. 7 Jnny. 1711 in his 36th year. .She Hi. secondly (as his 2nd wife) 17 Aug. 17-15, Francis (BkiiJIINOHAIi), Lord Athknky [I.], who rf. 4 March 1749. Eight years after his death, she was herself a: n Countess as above. She d. s.p. 11 March 1780 in her 81st year, when her life Peer- age became, of course, extinct. BRANDON |"co. Kerry], Barony [I.] l. Sir Maurice Crosbie of Anlfert., co. Kerry, only s. T l" r >^ iW? of David C. of the same, by Jane, vst. da. and coheir of l. il oo. WilHau) Hamilton, was Knighted lfi Feb. 1711/2 : M.P. for co. Kerry, 1713-5S ; sue. his Father, 1717 and was, on 10 Sep. 175S(») cr. BARON BRANDON, co. Kerry [I.] He m. Dec. 1712, Elizabeth Anne, 1st da. of Thomas (Fitzmai'hick), 1st Earl ok Kerry [I.], by Anne, da. of Sir William Petty. She d. 17 Dec. 1757. He d. 20 Jmiy. 1762. II. 1762. 2. Wouam (Crosbie), Baron Brandos [I.], s.] andh. On 30 Nov. 1771 he was cr. Viscount CbosbiBOK 1 Ardfbrt co. Kerry [I.], and, on the 22 July 1776, Easil ok Glanbork [I.] He d. 11 April 1781. to 1st c- Br. III. 1781, 3. John (Crosbie), Karl of (ii.AXDonE, Vis- count Crosbie ok Ardfert and Karon Brandon [I ], 2nd. £ „ £ K but 1st. surv. a. and h. He d. s.p. 23 Oct. 1815, when the Earldom and J J § £ Viscountey became extinct. IV. 1815, £ William (Crosdie), Baron Brandon [I.], cousin and h. male, being only s. and fa. of Main ice Crosbie, Dean of
- ° Limerick, by his 2ml wife, 1'yne, da. of Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart,
noon of Doveridgc, co. Derby. He was b. 1 Nov. 1771 ; was ed. at X0 ° Trin. Coll. Dublin; B.A., 1706; B.D., and D.D., 1816. Kector of Castle Island, co. Kerry. He m. 3 May 1815, Elizabeth, 1st da. of Col. David La Toucnu of Marlay, co. Dublin, by Cecilia, da. of Joseph (Leeson), 1st Earl OF Milltown [I.]. He d. e.p.m. 3 May 1S32 at Nice aged 60 when the Barony of Brandon [I.] became exli7ict.( h ) His widow survived him many years and d. 1 April 1862 at Torquay. See "MONTEAGLE OF BRANDON, co. Kerry," Barony ; cr. 18'19. ( a ) It seems remarkable that the patent should bear date the very day after the creation of the Countess of Brandon [I.] The privy seal for the Baron is dat. 27 July 176K and that for the Counters 25th of the Bame month. " Brandon, a mountain on the mutual lxiundary between the Barony of Gowran and that of Ida cu. Kilkenny, Leinster " (see "Pari. Gazetteer" [I.], 1849) is not to be confounded with the well-known village and buy, in the Barony of Corkaguiney, CO. Kerry, Monster. ( b ) It was one of the three extinctions acted on, according to the Act of Union [I.] in the creation of the- Barony of Carcw [1.] 14 June 1834.
