Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

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Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (sometimes spellt "Mount Earl" or "Mountearl") is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created, along with the courtesy title of Viscount Adare, on February 5, 1822, for Valentine Richard Quin. He had already been created a Baronet, of Adare in the County of Limerick, in the Baronetage of Ireland (1781), Baron Adare, of Adare in the County of Limerick (1800) and Viscount Mount-Earl (1816). The latter peerage titles were also in the Peerage of Ireland.

His son, the second Earl, represented Limerick in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1820 and also sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1839 until his death in 1850. In 1815 Lord Dunraven and Mount-Earl assumed by Royal license his wife's maiden surname of Wyndham in addition to that of Quin. His eldest son, the third Earl, sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire from 1836 to 1850 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick from 1864 to 1871. On June 16, 1866, Lord Dunraven and Mount-Earl was given the additional title of Baron Kenry, of Kenry in the County of Limerick, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Earl. He served in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1885 to 1886. He was also Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick from 1894 to 1926 and a Senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1926. However, he had no male heirs and on his death the Barony of Kenry became extinct, while he was succeeded in the other titles by his cousin, the fifth Earl. He had previously represented Glamorganshire South in Parliament as a Conservative from 1895 to 1906. The present holder of the Earldom is his grandson, the seventh Earl.