290 COMPLETE PEERAGE athenry ington, Dorset. She d. 24 Aug. 1833, aged 67, at Tardebigg. Admon. July 1834. He d. there j./>., aged 75, 21 Jan. 1845. (") Will pr. Apr. 1845. Both ^«r. at Tardebigg. Note. — It is most likely that an h. male exists of the first peer, who would be entitled to this peerage. Failing nearer heirs (though nearer there are bound to be) he could be found among the family of Aston of Whorcross, co. Stafford, a numerous race, descended from Richard, next br. to Sir John A., the first of Tixall, who d. 1523. See Hewlett^ p. 28.] ASTON-CLINTON See " Lake of Delhi and Laswary, and Aston-Clinton, Bucks, " Barony (Lake), cr. 1804 ; Viscountcy (Lake), cr. 1807 ; both extinct 1848. ASTON HALL See " Amesbury of Kintbury-Amesbury and Barton Court, Berks., and AsTON Hall, co. Flint," Barony (Dundas), cr. 1832, extinct 1832. ATHBOYO See " Darnley of Athboy, co. Meath, " Viscountcy [I.] (Bligh), cr. 1722 ; Earldom [I.] (Bligh), cr. 1725. ATHENRY, anciently ATHNERY [Observations. — The origin of this Peerage is obscure, but its position is undoubted, and has been acknowledged in almost every Pari, during its existence. Its possessor in 1489 was ranked third of the eleven Irish Barons who (with two Earls) obeyed the summons by Henry VII to Green- wich in that year, (") the fourth of such Barons being Kingsale, while the fifth was Gormanston]. Robert Bermingham or Bremingham, not improbably a yr. s. of Piers, Lord of Birmingham, co. Warwick, C) appears to have been the (°) See anecdotes of this supposed Peer and his ancestors in N. & Q., 3rd ser., vol. viii, p. 120, yc. C") See also Appendix A in this volume. (°) For the ranking of Irish peers on various occasions, see Appendix A, circa finem, in this volume. C) The name of the Founder is uncertain, by some it is said to be Piers or Peter, and by others William, although neither of these names appears in any Irish document of this date. The family were called Mac Feorais (or Phioris), which is the Erse equivalent for Fitz Piers, after Piers B., ttmp. Henry III, so no inference can
