The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-11

. The Late Lord wsstmsath
rev men have ever shuffled off this NOR
Ia! coil who stood more in need of the ap
pneat,on OF the amiable rule De nOrtuil
nst nssi bOnNns than the Irish representative
; peer who departed this life ON last Friday
night in this metropolis. But it is not fol
the good of society that the pail shall
cover the misdeeds Of men in high station
roDnc men have no right to expect from
citation of the truth, with abundant allow
ance, II possible. for the errancy of human
nature. Ihis debt we shall pay in our
reference to the life of the fret and last
Marq1,s of Westmeath. George Thomas
John Frederick Nugent, Marquis and Earl
OF Westmeath and Viscount Delvin in the
peerage Of Ireland, was born in the year of
grace l7S5, at ClOnyn, the ancestral seat on
the borders of Westmeath and Leitrim.
His father was seventh Earl of Westmeath
ana his mother was o niece of the renegade
John FltzGibbon, first Earl of Glare aud
Lord Chancellor OF Ireland, who first be-
trayed his God aRd then betray ed Ills coun-
try. The lady was an unfaithful wife, and
the marriage was dissolved by Act of Par
lament. At very early age the son, Wis
count Deivin, entered the army aud served
IN the Coldstream Guards under Sir Ralph
Aoercrombe in Egypt. His military
career ended there. 10 1912 he married a
| sister of the late Marquis of Salisbury,
VINO pore him two children, a son who died
| In infancy and daughter, the Lady Rosa
Nugent, who married the present Lord
Greville in 1s4l aud inherits her fathers
estates. Lady Westmeath, within q few
years OF her marriage, instituted suit for
divorce a n'eHsG ct fhOr0 on the ground of
cruelty, and obtained q decree by which
her husband was ordered to allow her a
large separate maintenance. She died in
1858, at st. James's Palace, where apart
me were allotted to her use by George
w, and on the day of her burial the
widower-who was created Maronis Mt the
Kings Coronation in ls22-ma, RED at ST.,
Gabriels Church, Pimlico, o young woman
named Jarvis, the daughter, it was said. of
cabman at Lisson Grove. That marriage
was soon dissolved in the Divorce Court |
On On account OF the lady's irregularity-the
correspondent being q yonng Englishman
whose family resided at Dieppe. The
Marquis contracted a third marriage with
near relative of the late Sir William
verner, who survives him. An an Irish
landlord and peer there have been few
themselves 80 unenviable q reputation. A
more lllberal, q more exacting, or q less
encouraging landlord Ireland never pro-
duced. His career as a politician was err
ratio, unprincipled, and regulated solely
oy his splenetic humors. In feeling he
Wellington with deadly antipathy for
some such reason as caused honest Iago"
to hate the Moor" and in all probability
with no better reason, he became vebe-
ment Radical in 1927. The Times is wrong
in stating that he always opposed Catholic {
Our impression is that he
became member of the Catholic Associa-
tlon towards It's close, but we can state
positively that he took the chair at the {
. provincial meeting" held in Mullingar in |
ie2e for the purpose of aiding O'Connel! in 7
forcing the Duke to concede Emancipation. =
His speec, on that occasion was SO violent
and also so personal to the Prime Minister l
that the Freen,an's Journal deemed it pru- 6
Dent to publish q very modified report of ,
t. After the French Revolution of 1880,
Lord Westmeath delivered at a meeting in t
Dublin speech which was positively sedi-
,ious and, of course, full of abuse of the
Duke of Wellington. About this period :
10 and O'Conneil fell out, and then he
urned like viper upon the Catholics and
he Liberal party whom he honored with
lis lmpotent invective, often bordering
lpon the scurriious, to his last exhibition
u the House of Lords. If it were allow
.ole to draw general conclusions from par
ocular premises, the physical aud mental il
conformation of the late Lord Westmeath Q
would 40 very far in making US believers 8
n the Darwinian theory. He is succeeded q
q the ancient earldom by his kinsman, Mr.. z
Anthony Nugent OF Palias, in the County r.
# Galway, whose ancestor was created by
James III. Lord Riverston, title alwsys
,orDe by the successors in tail male down N
% the death of the late lord, but which | ID
vas never recognized by the Crown after
The great Rebellion of 1858 on the false
'retence that James had abdicated before O
le conferred it. The Earl of Westmeath
9 Catholic, and is nearly related to the
Marquis eff Cianricarde and to the Mar P
luis of Sligo, who married one of his =
daughters who died in her confinement. 6
Another daughter, the Lady Mary Nugent,
9 the wife of Sir Thomas Burke, Bart, of
represented that county for several years y
n the Imperial Parliament. His eldest o.
ION, the Viscount Delvin, is married to !,
Miss De la Poer, sister Of Count De la b,
'oer. Mp. for Waterford County.-Lon- pl
lon Register, Nay ID. "a
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