Charles Henry St John O'Neill (1779 - 1841)

Born 22 Jan 1779 in Ulster, Ireland

Ancestors

Died 25 Mar 1841 at age 62 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Charles O'Neill was born in Ireland.

Charles O'Neill is Notable.

Charles Henry St John O'Neill, Earl O'Neill, was born 22 January 1779 and educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford, matriculating 23 November 1795. On his father's death he became 2nd Viscount O'Neill and two years later, on the recommendation of Lord Cornwallis, was made (7 August 1800) 1st Earl O'Neill of Shane's Castle. A month later he was elected one of the first Irish representative peers in Westminster. In 1831 he was appointed lord lieutenant of the county of Antrim, though after his father's death he could never bring himself to travel through Antrim town. Politically he differed from his father in being a strong supporter of the union, and he was a grand master of the Orange order in Ireland until 1828. ^[1]

He died unmarried at the Bilton Hotel, Sackville St., Dublin on 25 March 1841. The earldom then became extinct and the viscountcy devolved to his younger brother.

Sources

1. ↑ John O'Neill by Bridget Hourican https://dib.cambridge.org/viewFullScreen.do?filename=a6928

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