William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow

William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow PC (Ire) (11 March 1685 – 29 April 1746)[1] was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.

Political career

He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny County from 1715 to 1727.[2] Subsequently he represented Portarlington until 1733,[2] when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Castle Durrow, of Castle Durrow.[3] (At the time the civil parish of Durrow was an exclave of County Kilkenny; in 1842 it was transferred to Queen's County, later known as Laois.)

Flower was made High Sheriff of County Kilkenny in 1731,[1] and was invested to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1735.[4]

Family

He was the only son of Thomas Flower and his wife Mary Temple, daughter of Sir John Temple, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Jane Yarner.[5] Flower was educated at Christ Church, Oxford[5]

In 1717, Flower married Edith Caulfeild, daughter of Hon. Toby Caulfeild, a son of the 1st Viscount Charlemont.[6] They had two daughters and two sons.[3]

Flower died aged 61 and was buried at Finglas in County Dublin.[5] His only surviving son Henry succeeded to the barony.[7]

References

"Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Retrieved 24 March 2009.
"Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 24 March 2009.
Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 47.
"Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of Ireland". Retrieved 27 March 2009.
"ThePeerage - William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow". Retrieved 24 March 2009.
Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p. 25.
Debrett, John (1831). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. vol. II (19th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 853.

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Sir Henry Wemys William Ponsonby	Member of Parliament for Kilkenny County 1715–1727 With: William Ponsonby 1715–1721 Patrick Wemyss 1721–1727	Succeeded by Hon. William Ponsonby Patrick Wemyss
Preceded by Richard Warburton Lancelot Sandys	Member of Parliament for Portarlington 1727–1733 With: George Johnston 1727–1730 William Stannus 1730–1733	Succeeded by Lord George Sackville William Henry Dawson
Peerage of Ireland
New creation	Baron Castle Durrow 1733–1746	Succeeded by Henry Flower

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[RayBaron-1] "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Retrieved 24 March 2009.

[RayIre-2] "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 24 March 2009.

[Burke's-3] Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 47.

[4] "Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of Ireland". Retrieved 27 March 2009.

[thePeerage-5] "ThePeerage - William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow". Retrieved 24 March 2009.

[6] Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p. 25.

[7] Debrett, John (1831). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. vol. II (19th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 853.