Paternal Family Tree: Nugent of Carlanstown
In 1709 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent was born to Michael Nugent.
On 14th July 1730 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 21] and Emilia Plunkett were married. She the daughter of Peter Plunkett 4th Earl of Fingall and Frances Hales Countess Fingall.
On 16th August 1731 [his wife] Emilia Plunkett died in childbirth.
On 16th August 1731 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Nugent was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 22] and [his wife] Emilia Plunkett.
On 23rd March 1736 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 27] and Anne Craggs were married.
In 1739 [his father] Michael Nugent died.
On 7th May 1744 Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley [aged 29] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Countess Berkeley. He the son of James Berkeley 3rd Earl Berkeley and Louisa Lennox Countess Berkeley.
On 2nd January 1757 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 48] and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 37] were married.
In 1758 [his daughter] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 49] and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 38]. She married 1775 George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham and had issue.
In 1758 [his daughter] Louisa Nugent was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 49] and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 38].
In 1767 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 58] was created 1st Viscount Clare, 1st Baron Nugent. [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 47] by marriage Viscountess Clare.
On 30th May 1767 William Craven 6th Baron Craven [aged 28] and [his step-daughter] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 47].
On 17th March 1769 William Craven 5th Baron Craven [aged 63] died. His grandson William [aged 30] succeeded 6th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire. [his step-daughter] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach [aged 18] by marriage Baroness Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.
In 1771 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Nugent [aged 39] died unmarried.
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In 1775 [his son-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 21] and Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 66] and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 55].
In 1776 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 67] was created 1st Earl Nugent. [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 56] by marriage Countess Nugent.
In 1784 [his step-son] George Cranfield Berkeley [aged 30] and Emily Charlotte Lennox [aged 20] were married. He the son of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 64]. They were second cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 13th October 1788 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 79] died. [his son-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Earl Nugent. Viscount Clare, Baron Nugent extinct.
On 29th June 1792 [his former wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 72] died.
Letters of Horace Walpole. Nugent is most affectedly an humble servant of Mr. Pelham, and seems only to have attached himself to the Prince, in order to make the better bargain with the ministry; he has great parts, but they never know how to disentangle themselves from bombast and absurdities. Besides those, there are two young men who make some figure in the rising Opposition, Bathurst(4) attorney to the Prince; and Potter, whom I believe you have had mentioned in my letters of last year; but he has a bad constitution, and is seldom able to be in town. Neither of these are in the scale of moderation.
(4) The Hon. Henry Bathurst, second heir of Allen, first Lord Bathurst, He became heir to the title upon the death, without issue, of his elder brother, the Hon. Benjamin Bathurst, in 1761. In 1746 he was appointed Attorney-General to Frederick, Prince of Wales; in 1754, one of the puisne judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1771, Lord Chancellor. He was, upon this occasion, created a peer, by the title of Lord Apsley. He succeeded his father as second Earl Bathurst in 1775, and died in 1794.-D.
