The Lord Rossmore | |
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| Born | 18 April 1726 |
| Died | 6 August 1801 (1801-08-07) (aged 75) |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Branch | British Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | Ireland |
| Battles / wars | Jacobite rising of 1745 |
GeneralRobert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore (18 April 1726 – 6 August 1801), was an IrishBritish Army officer and politician.
Cuninghame was the son of Colonel David Cuninghame and his wife Margaret Callander of Craigforth. He was a General in the Army who fought at an early age at theBattle of Culloden in 1746 with the14th Foot. He later served asCommander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1793 to 1796.
Cuninghame sat as a Member of theIrish House of Commons forTulsk from 1751 to 1761, forArmagh Borough from 1761 to 1768 and forMonaghan Borough from 1768 to 1796. Between 1788 and 1789 he representedEast Grinstead in theBritish House of Commons.
Lord Rossmore later sat as anIrish representative peer in theHouse of Lords from January 1801 until his death in August 1801. He was childless and was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his wife's nephewWarner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore. Lady Rossmore died in 1824. His residence was Mount Kennedy, nearNewtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow. Here he died rather suddenly, aged seventy-five, in August 1801, having been in excellent health and good spirits to the end.
SirJonah Barrington (1756-1834), thejudge and memoirist, was apparently the originator of the colourful story that Lord Rossmore's death was heralded by the wailing of abanshee.
Cuninghame was a descendant of theCuninghames of Drumquhassle[1] and married Elizabeth Murray, second daughter and co-heiress of ColonelJohn Murray, in 1754. Elizabeth brought him a large dowry, but the marriage, if not for love, is said to have been very happy. He was admitted to theIrish Privy Council in 1782 and in 1796 he was raised to thePeerage of Ireland asBaron Rossmore, of Monaghan in the County of Monaghan,[2] with remainder to his wife's nephews Henry Alexander Jones (the son of Theophilus Jones and Anne Murray, eldest sister of Elizabeth; Henry Alexander Jones died childless before his uncle Lord Rossmore) and Warner William Westenra and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Westenra, sons of Henry Westenra and Harriet Murray, youngest sister of Elizabeth.
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forTulsk 1751–1761 With:Frederick Gore | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forArmagh Borough 1761–1768 With:Hon. John Ponsonby 1761 Hon. Barry Maxwell 1761–1768 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forMonaghan Borough 1768–1796 With:William Henry Fortescue 1768–1771 Henry Westenra 1771–1776 James Fortescue 1776–1777 Robert Dobson 1777–1783 Thomas James Fortescue 1783 Theophilus Jones 1783–1791 Cromwell Price 1791–1796 | Succeeded by |
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forEast Grinstead 1788–1789 With:George Medley | Succeeded by |
| Military offices | ||
| New regiment | Colonel of the124th Regiment of Foot 1762–1763 | Regiment disbanded |
| Preceded by | Colonel of the58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot 1768–1775 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Colonel of the14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1775–1787 | Succeeded by John Douglas |
| Preceded by | Colonel of the5th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons 1787–1799 | Regiment disbanded |
| Preceded by | Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1793–1796 | Succeeded by |
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
| New title | Representative peer for Ireland 1800–1801 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of Ireland | ||
| New creation | Baron Rossmore 1796–1801 | Succeeded by |