Barry Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore

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Barry John Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore (21 February 1790 – 24 October 1870), was an Irish nobleman.

He was the son of William Yelverton, 2nd Viscount Avonmore, and Mary Reade, eldest daughter of John Reade.[1] In 1814, he succeeded his father as viscount.[1]

He married, firstly, Jane Boothe, daughter of Thomas Boothe, in 1811 and had the following issue:

  • Hon. Barry Charles Yelverton (1814–1853), heir apparent to the viscountcy, 1814–1853
  • Hon. Sydney Eloisa Yelverton (1817–1883), married 1839, Forster Goring, son of Sir Charles Forster Goring, 7th Bt.
  • Hon. George Frederick William Yelverton (1818–1860), married 1857, Louisa Lenox Prendergast; heir apparent to the viscountcy, 1853–1860
  • Hon. Mary Augusta Yelverton (1820–1843)
  • Hon. Adelaide Matilda Yelverton (1821–1884), married 1860, Lt-Gen Humphrey Lyons, Indian Army

His first wife having died in 1821, Lord Avonmore married secondly, Cecilia O'Keefe, daughter of Charles O'Keefe and Letitia Yelverton, on 1 August 1822. They had the following issue:

  • Hon. Letitia Yelverton (1823–1897)
  • Hon. William Charles Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore (1824–1883)
  • Hon. Louisa Elizabeth Yelverton (1827–1915), married 1873, Rudolph Hermann Hultzsch
  • Hon. Cecilia Priscilla Yelverton (1829–1854), married 1853, Colonel George Harrington Hawes
  • Hon. Walter Algionby Yelverton (1832–1844)
  • Hon. Anna Yelverton (1833–1910), married 1859, James Walker
  • Hon. Maletta Yelverton (1839–1910), married 1868, Captain Crofton Thomas Burton Vandeleur

Lord Avonmore died in Dublin and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his third and only surviving son, William.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 98.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Avonmore
1814–1870
Succeeded by