RARE “14th Baron of Dunsany" Edward Plunkett Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1838 For Sale

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RARE “14th Baron of Dunsany" Edward Plunkett Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1838:
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 Up for sale a RARE! "14th Baron of Dunsany" Edward Plunkett Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1838

is one of the oldest dignities in the Peerage of Ireland, one of just a handful of

13th- to 15th-century titles still extant, having had 21 holders, of the

Plunkett name, to date. Other surviving medieval baronies include Kerry now

held by the Marquess of Louth[1] and Dunboyne.

The first Baron of Dunsany was Sir Christopher Plunkett,

second son of Christopher Plunkett, 1st Baron Killeen. The

elder Christopher married Joan Cusack, heiress of Killeen and Dunsany, and

passed Killeen to his eldest son and Dunsany to the second. The date at which

Christopher Plunkett became a peer,

and an hereditary member of the Irish Parliament, is uncertain; according

to Cokayne's Complete Peerage, there is no record of a Dunsany as a

peer before 1489, and the creation may well have been as late as 1462, the year

Sir Christopher died. On the other hand, Debrett's listed the date of

creation of the peerage as 1439, confirmed

by Letters Patent in 1461. The third Baron

was a founder member of the military order known as the Brotherhood of Saint George and

supported the claims of the English Crown.

The fourth Baron was a soldier of some repute who was killed trying to put down

a rising in 1521. His son, the fifth Baron, was a soldier and statesman who was

accused of complicity in the rebellion of Silken Thomas.

The eleventh Baron was a follower of King James II and was outlawed after

the Glorious Revolution. He was, however, restored

to his estates after the Treaty of Limerick, but neglected the necessary

measures needed to have himself recognised as the holder of the peerage, and,

as such, was not summoned to Parliament. The twelfth Baron conformed to

the Church of Ireland to preserve the lands of

both Dunsany and Killeen, but did not take the necessary steps to confirm his

right to the title and to his seat in the Irish House of Lords it bestowed. The

thirteenth Baron, son of the twelfth, did go through the necessary procedures

to have his title and claim to a seat in the former Irish upper house admitted,

and thus sat in that body as a peer as of proven right. He was succeeded by his

son, the fourteenth Baron, who served as Lord Lieutenant of County Meath,

and also sat in the British House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1836 to

1848. The fifteenth Baron represented Drogheda in the House of Commons and was an Irish

Representative Peer from 1850 to 1852. He was succeeded by his younger brother,

the sixteenth Baron. The latter was an admiral in

the Royal Navy,

and also served as an Irish Representative Peer between 1864 and 1889. The

seventeenth Baron, son of the sixteenth, sat as a Conservative Member of was an Irish Representative Peer from 1893 to 1899.

His brother, Horace Plunkett was a key figure in the

development of Irish agriculture and the Irish co-operative movement. The

seventeenth Baron was succeeded by his son, the eighteenth

Baron. He was a well-known poet, playwright and author of short

stories and novels, best known now for his short stories in the field of

fantasy, the Jorkens stories, and his novel The King of Elfland's Daughter.

The descendants of his younger brother, Reginald Drax,

bear not only the Dunsany's surname Plunkett, but also other surnames inherited

from their mother, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née

Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855–1916), giving them a

rare quadruple-barrelled of 2013, the title is held by the eighteenth Baron's great-grandson, Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany,

who in 2011, succeeded his father, the painter Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of

Dunsany, and first Roman

Catholic holder of the title since the 12th Baron. 

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