BRASSEY 281 BRANDON [co. Kilkenny] EARLDOM [I.] I. Ellis, ist da. of James Agar,(^) of Gowran y jj Castle, CO. Kilkenny, by Mary, his 2nd wife, da. of Sir '^ Henry Wemyss, of Danesfort, in that co. She m., Q istly, Mar. 1726, Theobald (Bourke), 7th Viscount ' °' Mayo [1.], who ^. s.p.s., 7 Jan. 1741, in his 36th year. She m., 2ndly (as his 2nd wife), 17 Aug. 1745, Francis (Bermingham), Lord Athenry [I.], who ^. 4 Mar. 1749. Eight years after his death she was, on 1 5 Sep. 1758, cr. COUNTESS OF BRANDON, CO. Kilkenny,y^r life. She d. s.p., 11 Mar. 1789, in Merrion Sq., Dublin, in her 8ist year, when her life Peerage became extinct.(^) Will pr. 1789. See " Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry," Barony, cr. 1839. BRANDON [co. Suffolk] See "Gerard of Brandon, SufFolk,"| Full account given under Barony {Gerard), cr. 1645. r' Macclesfield," Earldom of, i.e. "Brandon, Suffolk," Viscountcy. ) cr. 1679; extinct 1702. i.e. "Brandon, Suffolk," Dukedom {HamHton), cr. 10 Sep. 171 1; see "Hamilton," Dukedom of [S.], cr. 1643, under the 4th Duke. BRAOSE see BREWES BRASSEY OF BULKELEY BARONY. I. Thomas Brassey, ist s. of Thomas B.,("=) of Bulkeley, and of Buerton in Aldford, co. Chester (well . 1886. known as one of the greatest of railway contractors), by Maria Farringdon, 2nd da. of Thomas Harrison, of Liverpool. He was b. and bap. 11 Feb. 1836, at St. Mary's, Stafford; (') See note sub George, Baron Callan [i 790], as to peerages conferred on mem- bers of the family of Agar; and for those conferred on the families of Pitt and Baring respectively, see notes $ub Camelford and Revelstoke. (*) The Gent. Mag. ascribes to her " genuine wit, elegance of taste, dignity of manners, and superior understanding." V.G. ("=) This Thomas Brassey {b. 7 Nov. 1805, d. 8 Dec. 1870) was a descendant of Richard Brassey, of Bulkeley, who was living in 1663, being then aged 68, whose ancestor had acquired lands at Bulkeley by marriage with one of the Bulkeley family. See Her. Visit, of Cheshire, 1613 and 1663. The small property of Bulkeley, possessed by Lord Brassey, did not, however, come to his father (who was of a cadet line) by inheritance but by purchase. Ormerod, under " Bulkeley " in his Cheshire (ist edit., 1 819, vol. ii, p. 363) says "The Brassies continued resident there in great respectability for two-and-a-half centuries. The family have retained their property but have sunk to the rank of Yeomanry." 37
