Mervyn_Wingfield,_7th_Viscount_Powerscourt

Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt

Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt

Add article description


Mervyn Edward Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt KP PC (Ire) (13 October 1836 – 5 June 1904) was an Irish peer. He became Viscount Powerscourt in 1844 on the death of his father Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt. Through this Wingfield line he was a maternal descendant of the Noble House of Stratford. His mother was Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden.

Portrait of Viscount Powerscourt from his catalog in 1903

On 26 April 1864, Wingfield married Lady Julia Coke, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester. They had five children:[1]

Powerscourt was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 2 August 1871.[2] He was created Baron Powerscourt in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1885, enabling him to sit in the House of Lords.[3]

He owned 53,000 acres with 40,000 of these in Wicklow and 11,000 in Wexford and the remainder in Dublin.[4]


Art collection

Lord Powerscourt collected paintings as a hobby and published a catalog in 1903 called A description and history of Powerscourt.[5] He sometimes included details about his purchases in his list.


References

  1. "thePeerage.com". Retrieved 14 December 2008.
  2. Rayment, Leigh. "Knights of the Order of St Patrick". Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. "No. 25486". The London Gazette. 3 July 1885. p. 3060.
  4. A description and history of Powerscourt, by Powerscourt, Mervyn Edward Wingfield, Viscount, 1903
More information Peerage of Ireland, Peerage of the United Kingdom ...

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Mervyn_Wingfield,_7th_Viscount_Powerscourt, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.