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 1668 - 1734 (66 years)
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| Name |
McCarthy, Donagh |
| Born |
1668 |
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Male |
| Died |
1 Oct 1734 |
| Person ID |
I908 |
Wilkinson |
| Last Modified |
20 Jun 2019 |
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- 4th Earl of Clancarthy.
BIOGRAPHY: A Lord of the Bedchamber in Ireland to King James II 1689; in command of a regiment of infantry in the Irish Army on the side of King James 1689; taken prisoner at the Siege of Cork 1690 and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was attainted 11 May 1691 upon which both his peerages and vast estates were forfeited; he escaped to France in 1694, where he was in command of a troop of Horse Guards until 1697; returning secretly to England in 1698 to see his wife, he was betrayed by his brother-in-law, Charles, Lord Spencer, and again imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was pardoned following pleas by Lady Russell but at the cost of permanent exile; he was a Lord of the Bedchamber to the titular King James III 1707. On the attainder of the 4th Earl of Clancarty the Earldom of Clancarty was forfeited.
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Donough MacCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty
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Donough [Donagh] MacCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty (1668, Blarney ? 1 October 1734, Praalshof near Altona, Germany) was an Irish supporter of James II, banished after the victory of William of Orange; His peerage was attained in 1691. MacCarthy lived out his life in exile in Germany and on the Elmersmastede in Hoogkerk, Netherlands. He was part of the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty.
He was the son of Callaghan MacCarthy, 3rd Earl of Clancarty. His mother was Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, daughter of George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare; she subsequently remarried Sir William Davys, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
As the heir of his father's massive Irish estates at Cork and Kerry (inherited 1676, age 8) MacCarthy's upbringing was a matter of high policy. His mother, described as" a fierce Protestant isolated in a Catholic family"[1] brought him to England for a Protestant education and he was placed under the tutelage of John Fell , Bishop of Oxford, but neither his mother nor the Bishop could match the influence of his uncle Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, one of the closest advisers of the Duke of York, soon to become James II. With Justin's connivance, Donough married Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, in 1684, then principal secretary of state in England [2] : the couple were sixteen and thirteen respectively. The marriage was a legal construct, and went unconsummated for years. Kenyon remarks that Sunderland comprehensively ruined the lives of his daughter and son-in-law, without gaining any of the hoped for advantages.[3]
Imprisoned in the Tower for his part in the Jacobite resistance in Ireland, MacCarthy escaped in 1694 to James II's court on the continent. He returned to England in the new year 1698, to finally begin his married life, only to be turned in by his brother in law, Lord Spencer. Months later, MacCarthy was permitted to flee to exile in Altona, near Hamburg, with his wife.[4]. They had one son Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry, and one daughter, Charlotte, who married John West, 1st Earl De La Warr
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