CLARE 257 h. He was b. i Oct. 1793, in Dublin; was sometime an officer in the Army, serving at Oporto, Talavera, 1^0.; M.P. (Whig) for co. Limerick, 18 18-41; Usher and Registrar of Affidavits in Chancery [I.] 18 10 till the abolition of that office in 1836; Lord Lieut, of co. Limerick, 1831 to Sep. 1848, and again Sep. 1 8 5 1 , till his death. He w., at the British Consulate at Dun- kerque, 1 1 July 1825, and again 9 Jan. 1826, at St. James's, Westm., Diana (whose marriage in 18 14 with Maurice Crosbie Moore had been dis- solved by Pari, in 1825), ist da. of Charles Brydges Woodcock, of Brent- ford Butts, Midx. He d. s.p.m.s., at 9 Kensington Palace Gardens, Midx., 10 Jan. 1 864, when all his honours became extinct.(^) His widow ^.29 Sep. 1865, at 31 Bryanston Sq., Midx. [John Charles Henry FitzGibbon, styled Viscount FitzGibbon, only s. and h. ap., b. 2 May 1829; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 21 Oct. 1846, aged 17; Lieut. 8th Hussars. He d. unm. and v.p., being slain at the battle of Balaklava, 25 Oct. 1854, aged 25.] See " Carleton of Clare," Viscountcy [I.] (Car/eton), cr. 1797; exAnct 1826. See " FitzGerald and Vesci of Clare and Inchicronan, co. Clare," Barony [I.] (Vesey-FitzGerald), cr. 1826 ; extinct i860. CLARENCE DUKEDOM. LioneLjC") styled "of Antwerp," 3rd, but 2nd surv. s. , , of Edward III, by Philippe, da. of William, Count ~ of Holland and Hainault, was b. 29 Nov. 1338, at ^j, Antwerp, and having (in his 4th year) m., 9 Sep. 1342, ■^ ■ at the Tower of London, Elizabeth, only da. and h. of William (de Burgh), 3rd Earl of Ulster [L], by Maud, da. of HenryjC") Earl of Lancaster, consummated the said marriage, when aged 14, in 1352. By this match, he became, in her right. Earl of Ulster [I.], being recognised as such previous to 26 Jan. 1347, and acquired not only the right to the vast estates in Ireland (°) of the de Burgh family, but the possession of a large part (including the honour of Clare) of the estates of the great family of De Clare (Earls of Gloucester and Hertford) in right of his said wife's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth, (^) This was one of the extinctions used (under the Act of Union) for the creation in 1868 of the Barony of Rathdonnel. V.G. C') As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet," see vol. i, p. 183, note "c." (') He was unable to get actual possession of all these owing to the preva- lence of the right of the heir male in the kingdom of Ireland. See, ante, p. 228, note " c," sub " Clanricarde." 33
