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Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore of Monaghan (24 August 1792 – 1 December 1860) was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament and peer, from 1843 to 1852 Lord Lieutenant of Monaghan. ==Life== The son of Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore of Monaghan (1765–1842) by his marriage to Mary Ann Walsh, Henry Robert Westenra was born on 24 August 1792 at his mother's family seat, Walsh Park in County Tipperary. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he matriculated on 4 July 1810.〔Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition in 3 volumes, vol. 3 (Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003), p. 3408〕〔G. E. Cokayne ''et al.'', eds., ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', vol. XI, p. 182〕 His portrait was painted the same year by John Ferneley (1782–1860), showing him with his dogs and carrying a shotgun.〔 Westenra was Member of Parliament for County Monaghan from 1818 to 1830, again from 1831 to 1832 and from May to July 1834, and finally from 1835 to 1842. On 10 August 1842, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the titles of Baron Rossmore of Monaghan in the peerage of Ireland and Baron Rossmore of Monaghan in the peerage of the United Kingdom, the second title giving him a seat in the House of Lords. From 1843 to 1852 he was Lord Lieutenant of County Monaghan.〔 A member of a family of individualists, Rossmore was a prolific letter-writer, and his surviving letters have been described as "voluminous, frequently vitriolic, and very instructive".〔Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, (Rossmore Papers ) online at proni.gov.uk, accessed 28 February 2011〕 He was also an accomplished player of the Irish pipes, and was considered to be the equal of a good professional piper.〔James O'Brien Moran, ''(Lord Rossmore, a gentleman piper )'' online at seanreidsociety.org, accessed 28 February 2011〕 In ''Twenty Years Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate'' (1880), Frank Thorpe Porter recalled an evening when Rossmore On 25 January 1820 he married firstly, at Edinburgh, to Anne Douglas-Hamilton (born c. 1796 – died 1844), daughter of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon (1756–1799), and of Harriet Pye Bennett.〔〔 In right of this wife Rossmore inherited an estate on the Scottish Isle of Arran.〔 On 19 May 1846, after the death of his first wife, Rossmore married secondly at Camla Vale, County Monaghan, his cousin Josephine Julia Helen (née Lloyd), with whom he had six children: * Frances Kathleen (died 1925) * Norah Josephine Harcourt (died 1934) * Henry Cairns Westenra, 4th Baron Rossmore (1851–1874) * Derrick Warner William Westenra, 5th Baron Rossmore (1853–1921) * Richard Hamilton (1854–1880) * Peter Craven (1855–1932).〔〔〔Charles Mosley, ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 107th edition, vol. 3, p. 3409〕 According to Rossmore's second son, the fifth baron, "My father's favourite amusements were yachting, shooting and fishing, and, oddly enough, playing the bagpipes, at which he excelled." He also reported that Rossmore had suffered from a very bad stammer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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