Donough O'Brien, 16th Baron Inchiquin

Donough Edward Foster O'Brien, 16th Baron Inchiquin (5 January 1897 – 19 October 1968) was the holder of a hereditary peerage in the Peerage of Ireland, as well as Chief of the Name of O'Brien and Prince of Thomond in the Gaelic Irish nobility.

Biography

The first of five children born to Lucius O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin, and Ethel Foster, and older brother of Phaedrig O'Brien, 17th Baron Inchiquin, he was also the uncle of the current incumbent, Conor O'Brien, 18th Baron Inchiquin. He was educated at Eton College, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, early in the First World War, and Magdalen College, Oxford.^[1]

He married, on 13 December 1921^[2] Anne Molyneux Thesiger (1898-1973), daughter of Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford.

O'Brien was commissioned into the British Army's Rifle Brigade in 1916 and served with their 3rd Battalion in the First World War. He was ADC to the then Viceroy of India – his future father-in-law – from 1919 to 1920 and left the regular army in 1921.^[2] He held the Order of the Crown (Romania).^[3]

He served in the Second World War from 1939 to 1942 as a Captain in the London Rifle Brigade, a Territorial regiment.^[1]

Inchiquin inherited the family Dromoland Castle estate in Ireland and Moor Park near Ludlow, Shropshire. He moved home permanently to Ireland in 1939^[4] He sold Dromoland Castle and 350 acres (1.4 km²) of its estate because of financial difficulties and built himself nearby Thomond House, into which he moved in 1965. He died in 1968 aged seventy-one and was succeeded in the peerage by his younger brother, Phaedrig.

References

1 2 Who Was Who, 1961-1970. A and C Black. p. 578.
1 2 The Complete Peerage, Volume VII. St Catherine's Press. 1929. p. 57.
↑ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1926. Kelly's. p. 1260.
↑ Moor Park School website - history page.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Lucius O'Brien	Baron Inchiquin 1929-1968	Succeeded by Phaedrig O'Brien

Ó Briain

General	High Kings of Ireland Kings of Munster Kings of Thomond Kings of Dublin Kings of Mann and the Isles Earl of Thomond Viscount Clare Baron Inchiquin O'Brien baronets Clare's Dragoons Composition of Thomond

Ó Briain	Brian Bóruma Donnchad mac Briain Tadc mac Briain Murchad mac Donnchada Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain Muircheartach Ua Briain Domnall mac Taidc Domnall Gerrlámhach Diarmait Ua Briain Conchobar Ua Briain Bé Binn Ní Briain Brian Ua Briain Toirdelbhach mac Diarmaida Ó Briain Muircheartach mac Toirdelbhach Ó Briain Domhnall Mór Ó Briain Muircheartach Finn Ó Briain Conchobhar Ruadh Ó Briain Donnchadh Cairprech Ó Briain Conchobhar na Suidaine Ó Briain

Ó Briain Clann Brian Ruadh	Brian Ruadh Ó Briain Donnchadh mac Brian Ruadh Ó Briain Diarmuid Cléirech Ó Briain Donnchadh mac Domhnall Ó Briain Brian Bán Ó Briain

Ó Briain Clann Tadhg	Tadhg Cael Uisce Ó Briain Toirdelbach Ó Briain Donnchadh mac Toirdelbach Ó Briain Muircheartach Ó Briain Diarmuid mac Toirdelbach Ó Briain Mathghamhain Maonmhaighe Ó Briain Brian Sreamhach Ó Briain Toirdelbhach Maol Ó Briain Conchobhar mac Mathghamhna Ó Briain Tadhg an Glemore Ó Briain Mathghamhain Dall Ó Briain Toirdelbhach Bóg Ó Briain Tadhg an Chomhaid Ó Briain Donnchadh mac Mathghamhna Ó Briain Conchobhar na Srona Ó Briain Toirdelbhach Óg Ó Briain Toirdelbhach Donn Ó Briain Conchobhar mac Toirdhealbaig Ó Briain Murchadh Carrach Ó Briain

Ó Briain Tuamhain	Donough I O'Brien Connor O'Brien Donough II O'Brien Henry I O'Brien Barnabas O'Brien Henry II O'Brien Henry Ibrackan O'Brien Henry Horatio O'Brien Henry III O'Brien

Ó Briain Chláir	Daniel I O'Brien Connor O'Brien Daniel II O'Brien Daniel III O'Brien Charles I O'Brien Charles II O'Brien Charles III O'Brien

Ó Briain Inse Uí Chuinn	Dermod I O'Brien Murrough I McDermot O'Brien Murrough II O'Brien Dermod II O'Brien Murrough III O'Brien William I O'Brien William II O'Brien William III O'Brien James O'Brien Edward Dominic O'Brien Murrough IV O'Brien William IV O'Brien James O'Brien

Ó Briain Drom Ólainn	Donough O'Brien Edward I O'Brien Lucius I O'Brien Edward II O'Brien William Smith O'Brien Lucius II O'Brien Edward Donough O'Brien Lucius William O'Brien Donough Edward Foster O'Brien Pádraig Lucius Ambrose O'Brien Conor Myles John O'Brien

Places	County Clare County Limerick Dromoland Castle

Kinsmen	MacMahon MacConsidine MacLysaght O'Crotty

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