Robert Henry Southwell of Castle Hamilton, Honourable, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 8th Dragoons, Member of the Irish House of Commons for Downpatrick, proprietor of Castle Hamilton
Dates: October 1745–29 August 1817
Biography
Second son of Thomas George Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell, and Margaret Hamilton. He served in the army and represented Downpatrick in the Irish Parliament from 1776 to 1783. Through his mother he succeeded to or became the principal Southwell representative at Castle Hamilton. He married Frideswide Moore in 1786 and died at Clontarf in 1817.
Notes / Sources
University of Galway, Hamilton of Castle Hamilton — https://landedestates.ie/family/3898
Robert Henry Southwell biography — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Southwell
Complete Peerage, Southwell entry — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Complete_Peerage_Ed_1_Vol_7.djvu/203
Descendants of John Belknap register — https://belnapfamily.org/Sir_Robert_Belknap_Descendants_%28register%29.pdf
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Southwell of Castle Hamilton
Father: Thomas George Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell
Mother: Margaret Cecil Hamilton
Spouse(s): Frideswide Moore
Children / next generation: Robert Henry Southwell of Castle Hamilton, born 9 July 1789; one daughter, identity not securely established in the sources consulted
Armorial Registry
Southwell of Castle Hamilton — Robert Henry Southwell and the younger-son succession to the Cecil-Hamilton estate
Branch: Younger-son branch of the Southwell viscounts; proprietor of Castle Hamilton, County Cavan
Issued / recorded: 1745
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