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Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt

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Portrait of Viscount Powerscourt from his catalog in 1903

Mervyn Edward Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt KP PC (Ire) (13 October 1836 – 5 June 1904) was an Irish peer. He became Viscount Powerscourt in 1844 on the death of his father Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt. Through this Wingfield line he was a maternal descendant of the Noble House of Stratford. His mother was Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden.

On 26 April 1864, Wingfield married Lady Julia Coke, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester. They had five children:[1]

He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the part-time Wicklow Militia on 26 November 1870, promoted to Captain on 31 March 1871, and retired on 12 October 1871.[2]

Powerscourt was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 2 August 1871.[3] He was created Baron Powerscourt in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1885, enabling him to sit in the House of Lords.[4]

He owned 53,000 acres with 40,000 of these in Wicklow and 11,000 in Wexford and the remainder in Dublin.[5]

Art collection

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Lord Powerscourt collected paintings as a hobby and published a catalog in 1903 called A description and history of Powerscourt.[6] He sometimes included details about his purchases in his list.

References

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  1. ^ "thePeerage.com". Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  2. ^ Maj E.B. Evans, An Outline of the History of The County Wicklow Regiment of Militia, published by the Officers of the County Wicklow Militia, 1885, pp. 44–5.
  3. ^ Rayment, Leigh. "Knights of the Order of St Patrick". Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "No. 25486". The London Gazette. 3 July 1885. p. 3060.
  5. ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  6. ^ A description and history of Powerscourt, by Powerscourt, Mervyn Edward Wingfield, Viscount, 1903
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Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Powerscourt
1844–1904
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Powerscourt
1885–1904
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Representative peer for Ireland
1865–1904
Succeeded by