DONERAILE 397 BARONY [I.] I. St. Leger St. Leger,() formerly St. Leger , Aldworth, 2nd s. of Richard Aldworth, of New- ' ' ■ market, co. Cork, by Elizabeth, C') only da. of VT<^rnTTNTrY n T (whose issue became h. to) Arthur (St. Leger), '- ■-' 1st Viscount Doneraile [I.] abovenamed; was V. 1785. M.P. for Doneraile 1761-76, and having sue. in 1767 to the estates of his maternal uncle, the last Viscount, assumed the name of St. Leger for that of AldiKorth., 9 May 1767. He was cr., 2 Aug.Q 1776, BARON DONERAILE, of Doneraile, CO. Cork [LJjC^) taking his seat 27 Jan. 1778. On 22 June 1785, he was cr. VISCOUNT DONERAILE, of Doneraile, co. Cork [I.], and took his seat as such 16 Feb. 1787. Hew. (lie. at Cloyne), in 1752, Mary, ist da. of Redmond Barry, of Ballyclogh, co. Cork, by Henrietta, 2nd da. of William DuNscoMBE, of Mount Desart, co. Cork. She d. 3 Mar. 1778, in Great Britain Str., Dublin. He d. 15 May 1787, at Doneraile, from the bursting of a blood vessel. Will pr. 1787, Prerog. Ct. [I.]. Both were bur. at Doneraile. VISCOUNTCY [I.]^ VI. BARONY [I. 2. Hayes (St. Leger), Viscount Done- raile, (^c. [I.], s. and h., b. 9 Mar. 1755; „ M.P. for Doneraile 1776-87. Sheriff of co. ' '■ Cork 1780. Took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] 5 Feb. 1789; a Gov. of co. Cork 1809-19. He /«., 3 Sep. 1785, Charlotte, sister of Francis, ist Earl of Bandon [I.], and 4th da. of James Bernard, of Castle Bernard, co. Cork, by Esther, da. of Percy Smyth, of Headborough, co. Waterford. He d. suddenly, of "water on the chest," or of gout, at Doneraile House, 8 Nov. 18 19, aged 64.0 His widow, who was b. 1764, d. 2 Sep. 1835, at Cheltenham. (*) In the Lords' Journals and Lords' Entries his name is written as Sentleger Sentleger. V.G. (•>) She is celebrated as being the only lady ever admitted a Freemason. This was owing to her having, as a girl (say in 1 7 10, when aged 17), witnessed, unseen, the ceremonies at her father's house, long before the Grand Lodge of Ireland was founded (1729-30). She m. in 1713, and ^. in 1773, aged 80. Portraits of her in her masonic apron exist. See a full account of this matter in an article by "Brother Edward Conder," reprinted from the An Quatuor Coronatorum, in Jan. 1895. (■=) This is the date of the patent, but the Privy Seal was given earlier, and was gazetted 12 July 1776. V.G. C^) For a list of creations and promotions in the Irish peerage at this date, see vol. iii, Appendix H. (=) Sir Herbert Croft, in The Abbey of Kitkhampton, 1780, p. 121, describes his character as contemptible, and states that he killed, when Buckinghamshire was Lord Lieut., "an aged, infirm, and reverent Romish Priest." The Editor does not know what element of truth there may be in the story. He received ^Ti 5,000 as compensation for the disfranchisement of his nomination borough of Doneraile after the Union. V.G.
