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Acq. by Mar. Early 18Th C., Built Mid-18Th C., Sold 1914) Estates: 4528 (I) 2673 742 List of Parliamentary Families Seat: Prehen, Londonderry (acq. by mar. early 18th c., built mid-18th c., sold 1914) Estates: 4528 (I) 2673 Knox [Gore] Origins: Descended from an older brother of the ancestor of the Earls of Ranfurly. Mary Gore, heiress of Belleek Manor (descended from a brother of the 1 Earl of Arran, see Gore), married Francis Knox of Rappa. One of their sons succeeded to Rappa and another took the additional name Gore and was seated at Belleek. 1. Francis Knox – {Philipstown 1797-1800} 2. James Knox-Gore – {Taghmon 1797-1800} Seats: Rappa Castle, Mayo (Knox acq. mar. Gore heiress 1761, family departed 1920s, part demolished 1937, ruin); Moyne Abbey, Mayo (medieval, burned 1590, partly restored, acq. mid-17th c., now a ruin); Belleek Manor (Abbey, Castle), Mayo (rebuilt 1831, sold c. 1942, hotel) Estates: Bateman 30592 (I) 11082 and at Rappa 10722 (I) 2788 (five younger sons given 1,128 acres worth £408 pa each in mid-19th c.) Title: Baronet 1868-90 1 Ld Lt 19th Knox Origins: Cadet of the Rappa line. 1. John Knox – {Dongeal 1761-68 Castlebar 1768-74} 2. Lawrence Knox – Sligo 1868-69 Seat: Mount Falcon, Mayo (acq. 19th c., built 1876, sold 20th c., hotel) Estates: Bateman 5589 (I) 2246. Still owned 93 acres in 2001. LA TOUCHE IRELAND Origins: Huguenot refugees who came from Amsterdam to Ireland with William III’s army. One fought at the Boyne. Sheriff 1797. They operated a poplin factory in Dublin from 1694 and then became bankers (1712) and country gentlemen simultaneously in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several branches are combined here. 1. James La Touche – {Dublin 1727-49} 2. David La Touche – {Dundalk 1761-68 Longford 1769-83 Belturbet 1783-90} List of Parliamentary Families 743 3. John La Touche – {Newcastle 1783-90 Newton 1796-97 County Kildare 1797-1800} 1801-02 4. Peter La Touche – {County Leitrim 1783-97} 5. David La Touche – {Newcastle 1790-1800} County Carlow 1802-16 6. Robert La Touche – {Harristown 1794-1800} County Kildare 1802-30 7. John La Touche – {Newtown 1796-97 Harristown 1797-1800} Dublin 1802-06 County Leitrim 1807-20 8. Peter La Touche – County Leitrim 1802-06 9. Robert La Touche – County Carlow 1816-18 Seats: Marley (Marlay), Dublin (built early 18th c., purch. and rebuilt 1760, sold 1867); Harristown House, Kildare (acq. and buult 1783, fire and rebuilt c. 1900, sold 1946); Bellevue, Wicklow (purch. 1753, house built 1754 for £30,000, remod. 1790s, add. ealy 19th c., sold c. 1915, demolished early 1950s); Belfield, Dublin; Williamrow, Carlow; Drumhierny Lodge, Leitrim (acq. early 18th c., sold 1912, became a ruin); Luggala, Wicklow (acq. 1788 and built c. 1790s, sold 1857) Estates: Bateman 15311 (I) 10160 and 11379 (I) 7557. Bank income may have totaled £30,000 pa by the later 18th c. but then declined. (O’Byrne, Luggala Days, 36) Harristown rental £6-7,000 pa in 1800. Still held 1,024 acres at Harristown in 1928 (Bunbury, The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy: Kildare, 137). Notes: One in ODNB. LAMBART (Lambert) IRELAND & ENGLAND Earl of Cavan (1647- I) Origins: Claimed lineal descent from Ralphe de Lambart, who fought at the Battle of Hastings. (ODNB) Founder a goldsmith in London in the 1540s. To Ireland 1580 and again in 1599 as a soldier. Kted at the storming of Cadiz 1596. Governor of Connaught 1601, acquired estates. PC Ireland 1603. The 1 Baron lost or mortgaged most of his estates, but the 1 Earl gained further property 1622, although he too, was in financial trouble by 1660. First MP 1597 for Southampton and {1613 for County Cavan}. Two additional MPs one for Southampton 1601 and one for Bossiney 1626-29. The family kept one foot on each island. 1. Frederick Lambart 9 Earl of Cavan – S. Div. Somerset 1885-92 Seats: Wheathampstead House (Hall), Hertfordshire (acq. and built 19th c., sold after 1946); Stone Court, Surrey; Lambarton Park (House), Queen’s County (acq. c. 1622, sold mid-18th c.); Eaglehurst, Hampshire (built 1780, purch. 1803, add. c. 1810, sold 1844); Sharpham Park, Somerset (built 16th c., acq. by mar. 1794, part demolished 1799-1826, became a farm house, sold between 1906-23) 744 List of Parliamentary Families Estates: Bateman 2731 (E & I) 2099. Estimated income c. 1600 between £1,700 and £2,600. Title: Baron Lambart 1618- I Peers: {6 peers 1689 1692-1778 1786-1800} 1 Irish Rep peer 1915-45 2 KP 19th, 20th Notes: The 10 Earl was a field marshal. 1 Baron and 1, 7, and 10 Earls and one other in ODNB. Lambart Origins: Descended from a younger son of the 1 Earl of Cavan. First {MP 1647 for Kilbeggan}. 1. Walter Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1661-65} 2. Oliver Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1661-66 1692-93 1695-99} 3. Charles Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1695-99 1703-13 Cavan 1713-14 Kilbeggan 1715-53} 4. Charles Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1727-40} 5. Charles Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1727-40} 6. Gustavus Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1741-76} 7. Hamilton Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1753-60} 8. Charles Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1768-83} 9. Gustavus Lambart – {Kilbeggan 1797-1800} Seats: Beauparc (Beau Parc), Meath (acq. early 17th c., built 1755, add. c. 1778, held until 1930s); Hayes, Meath Estates: 1405 (I) 1794 Title: Baronet 1911-86 LAMBTON Earl of Durham (1833- UK) Origins: The Lambton’s have held Lambton since at least the mid-14th century, possibly much earlier. Mined coal before 1600, and by 1640 were exporting 30,000 tons a year. (Country Life, 139, p. 665). Coal provided a great fortune by the 19th century. First MP 1431 for Northumberland. 1. William Lambton – County Durham 1685-87 1689-98 1701-02 1710-13 2. Henry Lambton – Durham 1734-61 3. John Lambton – Durham 1762-87 4. William Lambton – Durham 1787-97 5. Ralph Lambton – Durham 1798-1813 List of Parliamentary Families 745 6. John Lambton 1 Earl of Durham – County Durham 1813-28 7. Hedworth Lambton – N. Durham 1832-47 8. Frederick Lambton 4 Earl of Lambton – S. Durham 1880-85 S. E. Durham 1900-10 9. Sir Hedworth (Lambton) Meux – Portsmouth 1916-18 10. Antony Lambton 6 Earl of Durham – Berwick-on-Tweed 1951-73 Seats: Lambton Castle, Durham (originally Harraton Hall – old house, rebuilt later 17th c. for the Hedworths, passed to Lambtons by mar. in part 1688 and rest by purch. from co-heirs 1714, pulled down 1796 and rebuilt as Lambton Castle 1796-1802, vastly enlarged 1820s and 1857-65, radically reduced in size 1932, still own); Old Lambton Hall, Durham (on opposite side of river from Harraton, pulled down 1797); Biddick Hall, Durham (medieval, add. 16th c., purch. 1610, rebuilt 1721-23, add. 1954-55, present seat) Estates: Bateman 30471 (E) 71671. The 6 Earl left £11,800,000 in 2006. Owned 9,500 acres in 2001. Title: Baron Lambton 1828- UK Peers: 5 peers 1828-40 1849-1945 2 Lds Lt 19th, 20th 1 in Cabinet 1830-33 1 KG 20th Notes: The 6 Earl of Durham was involved in a sex scandal with security implications when serving as a junior minister in the Ministry of Defense and was obliged to resign in 1973. The Meux estates (brewers, perhaps close to one million pounds) passed to the Lambtons in 1911 (see Meyrick). 1 and 6 Earls and four others in ODNB. LAMONT SCOTLAND Lamont Origins: First mentioned in a charter 1238. This line held the chiefship of the clan. First [MP 1630 for Argyll]. An additional [MP 1639 also for Argyll]. 1. Archibald Lamont – [Argyll 1685-86] Seat: Ardlamont House, (Inveryne) Argyllshire (built 1325, acq. 1646, rebuilt 1819-20, sold 1893) Lamont Origins: A cadet line were Jacobites and became West Indian proprietors in Trinidad. Repurchased estates in Scotland 1753. 746 List of Parliamentary Families 1. Norman Lamont – Wells 1832-34 2. Sir James Lamont 1 Bt – Buteshire 1865-68 3. Sir Noman Lamont 2 Bt – Buteshire 1905-10 Seat: Knockdow House (Kilmichael), Argyllshire (acq. 1554, repurch. 1753, built c. 1765, add. c. 1815, add. c. 1870, remod. 1921-25, sold 1954) Estates: Bateman 6775 (S) 2427 Title: Baronet 1910- Notes: The Lamonts remodled Knockdow in the 1920s with exotic hardwoods from their estates in Trinidad, which they still owned. 1 Bt in ODNB. LAMPLUGH Origins: Settled at Lamplugh since the 12th century. Every head of the family was High Sheriff of Cumberland from the 15th to the 18th century. First MP 1384 for Cumberland. One additional MP 1421 also for the county. 1. Richard Lamplugh – Cumberland 1679 2. Thomas Lamplugh – Cockermouth 1702-08 Seats: Lamplugh Hall, Cumberland (acq. and built late 12th c., add. 1595, burned mid 18th c.); Ribton Hall, Cumberland (purch. mid-17th c., rebuilt later 17th c., sold 1722, demolished) Estates: Worth £1,000 pa in 1660. Owned 6,000 acres in the 19th c. Notes: Thomas Lamplugh MP died 1737 leaving the estates to his daughter, who married Richard Briscoe (see Briscoe). One in ODNB. LANE-FOX [Benson] Baron Bingley (1713-31 GB; 1762-73 GB; 1933-47 UK) Origins: Robert Benson of Bramham Park, the son of a Yorkshire attorney “of mean extraction” (The Complete Peerage, II, 177), was grasping and ambitious, and became a financier and purchased estates. He became Chancellor of the Exchequer and was created Baron Bingley 1713. George Fox married his daughter and heiress in 1731 and the Barony of Bingley was revived for him. The first Fox MP was the son of a mercer. Thomas’s nephew Henry Fox married 1691 the sister and heiress of the 2 Viscount Lanesborough (see below). Their eldest son, George Fox, 1 Baron Bingley of the second creation, took the additional name Lane.
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