CADOGAN 465 Family Estates. — These consistchiefly of the (lucrative) manorof Chelsea, Midx., which was bought from the family of Cheyne in 1712, by Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., on whose death s.p.tn., 1 1 Jan. 1753, in his 92nd year, it de- volved on his two daughters, one of whom m. Lord Cadogan. The Rt. Hon. Hans Stanley, only s. of the other da., d. s.p. (committing suicide at Althorpe) 13 Jan. 1780, leaving the reversion of his moiety, after the death of his two sisters, to the Cadogan family, who became thereby, eventually, possessed of the whole. The names of Sloane Str., Hans Place, Cadogan Sq., tfc, testify its extent. Principal Residence. — Chelsea House, Cadogan Place, Midx.(^) CAHER otherwise CAHIER, CHAIER, and CHAIERDOWNESKE BARONY [I.]. I. Thomas Butler, s. and h. of Edmund B., of Chaier, or Caher-down-Eske, in the barony of Kiltenenen, I. 1543. by Catharine, da. of Sir Pierce Power, of co. Waterford, was cr.(^) 10 Nov. 1543, BARON CAHER,(=) co. Tip- perary [I.], with rem. to the heirs of his body.{f) He »?., istly, Eleanor, da. of Piers (Butler), Earl of Ormond [I.], by Margaret, da. of Gerald (Fitz Gerald), Earl of Kildare [I.]. He ;«., 2ndly, Ellen, sister (whose issue, in 1565 became h.) of James, Earl of Desmond [L], da. of Maurice Fitz Gerald, by Joan, da. of John FiTzGiBBON,the White Knight. He d. 1558.0 II. 1558 2. Edmund (Butler), Baron Caher [I.], only surv. s. to and h. (of six sons), by ist wife. He joined the Earl of 1560. Sussex, then Lord Lieut. [I.], in the expedition against Limerick. He m. ( — ), da. of James (Fitz Gerald), Earl of Desmond [I.].(0 He d. s.p., i^6o,(f) only 21 months after his father, when the Barony became extinct or fell into abeyance. (^) For some remarks on Lord Cadogan's property as compared with the great es- tates of 100,000 acres and upwards, see vol. vi. Appendix H. () Letter from the King to the Lord Deputy directing him to be cr. Lord Cahir, dat. 5 July 1542 [sic], {State papers [I.] 1509-73, p. 63). V.G. (') The preamble to the patent is in Lodge, vol. vi, p. 217. ('*) This very unusual limitation to heirs o-fw^rc/ of the body, in an Irish patent, was preceded (1328) by that of the Earldom of Ormond, and followed (1660) by that of the Viscountcy of Massereene. (') For the Ranking of Irish peers on various occasions see vol. i, Appendix A. (') Neither the Christian name nor the name of the mother of this Lady Caher can be given with certainty, and for this period Lodge is not to be depended on. Lady Caher was not Eleanor, da. of Gerald, Earl of Desmond [1558], by his 2nd wife. More [Mary], da. of Moelrony MacShane O'Carroll; she may have been Joan, a da. of that Earl, possibly by his Ist wife, which Joan d., having been long a widow, in 1598. ^tc The Four Masters. V.G. (s) On his death the Barony, according to the spec, rem., fell into abeyance be- tween the heirs general, i.e., the 2 daughters of his father by the 2nd wife, viz. (i) 60
