CREMORNE 527 CREDAN See " FoRTEscuE of Credan, co. Waterford," Barony [I.] [Fortescue- Aland')^ cr. Aug. and extinct Dec. 1 746. CREELING See " Cranstoun " (according to some authorities, " Cranstoun of Creeling [i.e. Nether Crailing], co. Roxburgh "), Barony [S.] {Cranstoun), cr. 1609; extinct or dormant, 1869. CREMORNE VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. Thomas Dawson, ist surv. s. and h. of T o Richard D., of Dawson Grove, co. Monaghan, ' -• Alderman and Banker of Dublin (who ^.29 Dec. g 1 766), by Elizabeth, da. of John Vesey, Archbishop ^' of Tuam, was b. 25 Feb., and bap. 2 Mar. 1725; ■RARONY n 1 M.P. for co. Monaghan, 1749-68. On 28 May "^ L^-J i^^o he was cr. BARON DARTREY OF DAW- I. 1797- SON'S GROVE, CO. Monaghan [1.], and on 19 June 1785, VISCOUNT CREMORNE [I.].(^) On 20 Nov. 1 797, he was cr. BARON CREMORNE OF CASTLE DAW- SON, CO. Monaghan, with rem. to the heirs male of his body, which failing with rem. to his nephew,() "Richard Dawson, Esq." in like manner. He ?«., istly, 15 Aug. 1754, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Anne, yst. da. of Thomas (Fermor), ist Earl of Pomfret, by Henrietta Louisa, da. and h. of John (Jeffreys), 2nd Baron Jeffreys of Wem. She, who was bap. 25 May 1733, d. I Mar. 1769, at Castle Dawson, and was bur. at Ematris, CO. Monaghan. He tn., 2ndly, 8 May 1770, Philadelphia Hannah, da. of Thomas Freame, of Philadelphia, in the United States, hy Margaretta, da. of the famous William Penn, founder of that city. He d. s.p.s., 1 Mar. 1 8 13, in Stanhope Str., Mayfair, London, in his 89th year, when the Viscountcy of Cremorne [I.] and the Barony of Dartrey [t.] became extinct. Will pr. i8i3.(') His widow, who was b. in Philadelphia, d. 14 Apr. 1826, in Stanhope Str. afsd., in her 86th year. Will pr. June 1826. II. 1 8 13. 2. Richard Thomas (Dawson), Baron Cremorne of Castle Dawson [I.], great-nephew, and h. according to the spec. rem. in the patent of 1797, being s. and h. of Richard Dawson (") Cremorne is one of the Baronies of co. Monaghan. {) His only s. by his 1st wife, Richard, having (/. 3 Mar. i 778, at Cambridge, and his only s. by his 2nd wife, and only surv. child, Thomas, having d. 9 Oct. 1787, aged 16. V.G. (') His Irish estates are said in 1799 to have been worth ;^8,000 p.a. For a list of the largest resident Irish landlords at that date, see vol. iv, Appendix C. V.G.
