MOUNTJOY — MOUNT-LEINSTER. 403 and was bur. at Silchester, Hants, when all his peerage dignities became extinct, thu' the Baronetcy [I.], devolved on a distant cousin and h. male. His widow d. 1 Oct. 1774, at an advaaced ape, in Berkeley sq., and was bur. at Silchester. Will dat. 24 Feb. to 19 July, and pr. 10 Oct. 1774. [William Stewart, 1st s. and h. ap>., styled Viscount Mountjoy, b. 11 March 1734, d. unm. and v. p., 2 Feb. 1751, at. Paris, and was bur. at Silchester ufsd.] Barony [I.] j. The Ex. Hon. Luke Gardiner, s. and h. of the L 178!). ^ou. Ctalfl« Gardiner, of Dublin, by Florinda, da. of Robert Norm an*, of Lagore, co. Meath, which Charles was s. and h. of the Viscountcy [I.] lit. Hon. Hon. Luke Gardiner Vice Treasurer of Ireland, by I 170-) Anne, da. and h. of the Hon. Alexander Stewart, 2d s. of William, • 1st Viscount Moi-ntjoy [I.J, was b. 7 Feb. 1745; sue. his father, 15 Nov. 17tl0, who, some three months before his death, had on the death of the 3d Viscount Mountjoy, inherited much of the property of that family ; was M.P. for Dublin : P.O. [I.],' and Col. of the Dublin Militia, and was cr. 19 Sep. 1789, BARON MOUNTJOY of Mountjoy, co. Tyrone [I.], being subsequently cr. 30 Sep. 179"., VISCOUNT MOUNTJOY of Mountjoy, co. Tyrone [fc] * lie in. firstly, 3 July 1773, Elizabeth, 1st. da. of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Bart., of Magbiehill, co. Peebles, by his first wife Hannah, da. and coheir of Alexander Tomkyns, of Prehen, co. Londonderry. Shet/. 7 Nov. 1783. He m. secondly 20 Oct. 1793, Margaret, 1st da. of Hector Wali.IS, of Spring Mount, Queen's county. He if. 6 June 1793, being slain at the head of his regiment at the battle of Ross in Ireland. S, Ciiari.es John (Gardiner), Viscount Mountjoy II. 1798, and Barox MOUSTJOY [I. J. 2d but only surv. s. and h. ; b. II July to 1782: me. to the peerage [I.J, 5 June 179S ; was Gov. of co. Tyrone ; 1829, RW"- I'eer [I.], 1809-29 and was cr. 12 Jan. 1SIG EARL OF BLIiSINGTON [I.] ; see that creation. He who was in. twice, d. s.p.m.s. 25 May 1S29 aged 16 when all his honours became extinct. [Luke Wellington Gardiner, styled (ISIG-23) Viscount Mountjoy, lsts. and hi ap., by first wife : b. 11 Sep. 1S13 ; d. num. and v.p. 2« March 1S23]. M< iraT-LELNSTHB. [Memorandum. This is one of the seven Irish peerages cr. "by James II., after his exclusion from the throne of England (11 Dec. 16SS), but when Jio was in full possession of all his royal rights as Ring of Irelmd. All these creations were duly inscribed on the patent rolls [I.], from which they have never been erased. See vol. i, p. 59, note " b," sub " Albemarle " for an account of these and other Jacobite creations.] Viscountcy [I.], 1. Edward Cheevers,(") of Macetown, s. and I 1GS9 • J"' 1 " & °f l ' 10 saiue > having in. Ann, sister to the . ' gallant Patrick SaBSFBLB, who was cr. Marl of Lucas [I.], by . Ring James II, while in banishment, joined him and other his 1U9.J. relatives in the support of that Ring, in Ireland, in 16SS, being his aide-de-camp at the battle of the Boyue, and was cr. by him, by patent 21 Aug, lu'89 BARON BANNOW, co. Wexford and VIS- COUNT MOUNT-LEINSTI'iR, co. Carlow[L], Tho' included in the articles of Limerick he accompanied Ring James into exile, and d. s.p. in France, 1693, when the peerage (so created) became extinct. (») There is a good account of this family in Burke's " extinct peerage." 2 c 2
