Belmore [electronic resource] : Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marson, Peter.

Contributor:

Ulster Historical Foundation, Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country homes--Northern Ireland.

Country homes.

Northern Ireland--Genealogy.

Northern Ireland.

Castle Coole (Enniskillen, Northern Ireland)--History.

Castle Coole (Enniskillen, Northern Ireland).

Lowry Corry family--Homes and haunts--Northern Ireland.

Lowry Corry family.

Belmore, Armar Lowry-Corry, Earl, 1740-1802--Family.

Belmore, Armar Lowry-Corry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (563 p.)

Other Title:

Belmore

Place of Publication:

Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Belmore: The Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913 tells the fascinating story of two families who left Dumfries in the mid 17th century to settle in Fermanagh and Tyrone. The marriage of Galbraith Lowry to Sarah Corry united their considerable fortunes and political clout. Their only surviving son, Armar Lowry Corry, inherited some 70,000 acres and an income of £12,000 and moved up in the heady world of Irish society and politics as Baron Belmore with a marriage arranged to a beautiful young wife and heiress, the eldest daughter of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. To celebra

Contents:

Belmore; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Part One; 1. Origins I; Arms and Alimony; 'Of great advantage as well as ornament': The Second Castle Coole; The Last of the Corrys: Colonel John Corry and his Son Leslie Corry; 2. Interregnum: A Man of Ability, Honesty and Affection - Margetson Armar; 'He makes his Riches, like his Waters, flow/In many copious channels'; 3. Origins II; Virtue Always Flourishes: The Lowrys of Aghenis; The Lowrys become Lowry Corrys; Armar Lowry Corry: Early Life; A North Country Gentleman: Politics and Marriage; 4. Supreme Felicity

5. An Unhappy Affair'My honor, my peace of mind, and the reputation of my daughter called for a divorce'; 6. Building and Rebuilding:A New Wife and a New House in a New Demesne; Preparations for a New Demesne Landscape; 7. 'My Lord's intentions in the building line ... I study it and nothing else night and day': Alexander Stewart, Architect; 'The weekly accounts of Labourers and Mechanics imployed at Castle Coole by A. Stewart 1788 onwards'; 'Magnificent' but Sadly Wanting Furniture; 8. Viscount Corry Comes of Age; 9. The Dreadful Question: Lord Viscount Corry, Belmore and the Union Bill

10. 'Lord Belmore's death puts an end to all our doubts and difficulties'The Financial Background of Armar Lowry Corry; Part Two; 11. Situation, character and fortune; An Extravagant Young Man; Neither 'object nor prospect of success'; Perfectly Happy: 'Dear abode of happiness! My home!'; 12. Donegal, London and Portsmouth: The Travels Begin; 'She's the nicest of vessels that ever was seen'.2; An 'arduous and unexpected ... state of inconvenience'2; 'Repose from the harsher anxieties of existence in this country ... a land of theology, warfare and fog'

13. 'Something so novel, so interesting (in this degenerated age)'Heroical Incidents; The Tiger of Epirus and the Nun of Syria; Four Remarkable Men; Leaving their names behind them at the 'transcendent Pyramids'; A 'great undertaking for Lady Belmore and the little girl'; 'Everything seems to speak and move around you'; To the Second Cataract on the Nile; 'Work hotly plied': Back to the Valley of the Kings; 'All the pomp, parade and grandeur, of luxurious speculation'; 'Like a London Lord Mayor's show'; 14. A Stern Father and the Advantages of a Fortune

15. Governor, Vice Admiral and Lord Chancellor of Jamaica16. Home, a Proud Victory and Family; A Season of Painful Uncertainty; Part Three; 17. 'His Estate is his care and his tenantry, his family'; Pressure for Money and Sales; 'His Estate is his care and his tenantry, his family'; Part Four; 18. Youth and 'a dangerous situation'; 'Liking it pretty well': Education and Growing Up4; Irish Representative Peer and 'the great confusion of the affairs of my property'; 19. The 'skeletons of departed camels': Egypt and the Holy Land; 'Grateful for any favour conferred': Railways to the Rescue

Ave Atque Vale: Marriage, Politics and Employment

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ISBN:

1-908448-58-X

OCLC:

870598769