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The Bunbury Family

The McClintock Bunburys of Lisnavagh

Here, Turtle explores the history of the family from their arrival in England with the Norman invasion to the exodus from Cheshire to Ireland in the wake of the English Civil War. He also looks at the families earliest association with Ireland - and Virginia - and the generations who occupied Lisnavagh prior to the historic marriage of 1797 between John McClintock, MP, of Drumcar House, Co. Louth, and Jane Bunbury, daughter of the late William Bunbury, MP, of Lisnavagh House, Co. Carlow. Their firstborn son was created Baron Rathdonnell and succeeded to Drumcar. Their second son, Captain William McClintock Bunbury, enjoyed life as an intrepid sailor chasing slavers in the South American seas during the 1830s. In 1847, he was elected MP for Co. Carlow and commissioned architect Daniel Robertson to build the new house at Lisnavagh. The Captain is ancestor to the present day McClintock Bunbury family. His eldest son Thomas would go on to become the 2nd Baron Rathdonnell while the younger son, Jack Bunbury, married into one of Ireland's foremost hunting dynasties. Amongst the families who made a mark on the Bunburys in this era were those of Josias Campbell (great-uncle of the British naval hero, Admiral Sir William Rowley), Redmond Kane (one of the wealthiest men in Ireland during the 1780s), Sir Hugh Gough (subsequently Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India), Sir Leopold McClintock (the Arctic explorer), Charles Paget (nephew of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), the Clancartys of Ballinasloe, the Lefroys of Hampshire, the Stronges of Tynan Abbey, the Bruens of Oak Park and the Ievers of Ceylon.

See also: The Robert Browne-Clayton Collection & The Bunbury Papers which have been transcribed by Michael Purcell and his hard working team for 'The Pat Purcell Papers'.

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