40 CARLOW CARLOW, formerly CATHERLOUGH (town of)^ (See under "Catherlough " for previous creations.) VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. William Henry Dawson, 2nd, but ist T /. surv. s. and h. of Ephraim Dawson, of Portar- ' ' ' lington. Queen's County, many years M.P. for that CO. (who d. 27 Aug. 1746), by Anne, da. and h. of Samuel Preston, of Emo, in that co. M.P. for Portarlington 1733-60; for Queen's County, 1761-68; for Portarlington (again) 1769-70; a Gov. of Queen's County from 1750. On 29 May 1770 he was cr. LORD DAWSON, BARON DAWSON OF DAWSON'S COURT, in the Queen's County [I.], and was cr., on 24 July 1776, VISCOUNT CARLOW, CO. Carlow [I.j-C") He w., 8 Dec. 1737, Mary, sister (whose issue became h.) of Joseph, ist Earl of Dorchester, ist da. of Joseph Damer, of Came, Dorset, by Mary, da. of John Churchill, of Henbury, in that co. She d. 2 June 1769, and was bur. in St. George's Chapel, Dublin. He d. 22 Aug. 1779, in his 67th year, and was bur. at New Church, in Coolbanagher, Queen's County. Will pr. 1779. II. 1779- 2. John (Dawson), Viscount Carlow, i£z. [I.], s. and h. On 21 June 1785, he was cr. EARL OF PORTARLINGTON in the Queen's County [I.]. See "Portarling- ton," Earldom of [I.], ^r. 1785. CARLTON see also CARLETON i.e. " Viscount Carlton, of Carlton in the West Riding of the co. of York" (Stuart-fVortley), cr. 1876 with the Earldom of Wharncliffe, which see. CARLYLE OF TORTHORV^ ALD, or TOR- THORRELL BARONY [S.] I. Sir John Carlyle, s. and h. of WiUiam C, of Torthorwald, co. Dumfries (who attended Margaret of I- 1473 Scotland into France on her marriage, 1436, with Louis or the Dauphin, afterwards Louis XI, and d. between 1452 1474. and Nov. 1463), by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (probably da. of Sir Duncan Kirkpatrick, by Isabel his wife), having been instrumental in suppressing the rebellion of the Douglas family in (") A King's Letter of 8 Feb. 1626/7 ordered that Lord Brabazon of Ardee should be cr. Earl of Carlow. This was superseded by another letter of 10 Mar. following creating him Earl of Meath. V.G. ( ) He was cr. a Baron on the recommendation of Lord Townshend, and a Viscount on that of Lord Harcourt. For the profuse creations and promotions in the Irish peerage see Appendix H to this volume. V.G.
