page_title: Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Barryscourt Castle near Carrigtwohill in Co. Cork
context_page_description: Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet was an Irish barrister, judge and politician. He was the first of the Meade Baronets of Balintubber, and an ancestor of the Earls of Clanwilliam. He was unusual among the lawyers of his era for his lack of ambition to become a judge of the High Court, despite being widely regarded as a barrister of "excellent parts". In matters of religion he seems to have been, by the standards of his time, a man of very tolerant views: although he was himself a Protestant, he damaged his career by marrying Elizabeth Butler, who was a Roman Catholic, as his third wife.
context_section_description: Sir John married firstly Mary Coppinger, daughter of James Coppinger of Barryscourt Castle, County Cork; they had no children.
  He married secondly Elizabeth  Redman,  daughter and co-heiress of Colonel Daniel Redman of Ballylinch, County Kilkenny and his wife Abigail Otway. Redman was a Cromwellian  army officer, who had  purchased substantial lands in Ireland  from his brother-in-law Captain John Joyner, who had begun his career as a cook  in the household of King Charles I of England.    John and Elizabeth had one surviving daughter-
  Elizabeth, who married firstly Sir Ralph Freke, 1st Baronet, and secondly James King, 4th Baron Kingston and had children by both marriages. She died in 1750.
  He married thirdly in 1688 Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Pierce Butler, 2nd Viscount Ikerrin and his wife Eleanor Bryan.  The 2nd  Lord Ikerrin    was a  convert to Protestantism  but his son James,  the 3rd Viscount  (who married Eleanor Redman, sister of John Meade's  second  wife   Elizabeth Redman)  reverted to the Catholic faith, as did  Elizabeth herself. Her Catholic beliefs became a barrier to her husband's  career advancement.  She died in 1757.  They had at least eight children-
  two sons who died young
  Pierce, who succeeded  his father as 2nd Baronet but died in 1711,  at the age of 18;
  Richard, 3rd Baronet  (1697-1744) from whom the Earls of Clanwilliam are descended;
  Helen,  who married Richard Ponsonby of Crotto House, County Kerry,   MP for Kinsale 1727-1760;
  Catherine,  who married firstly Thomas Jones, younger son of Lewis Jones, Bishop of Killaloe,   and secondly Nehemiah Donnellan, MP for Tipperary, son of Nehemiah Donnellan, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer;
  Mary, who married Denis McCarthy of Cloghroe, County Cork,  and had issue;
  Jane, who never married.
  The Meade family acquired large estates in Cork and Tipperary, only to lose them all.at the end of the century through the extravagance of John Meade, 1st Earl of Clanwilliam.
caption: Barryscourt Castle, home of Meade's first wife Mary Coppinger.
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