Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet JP (20 August 1723 – 1811) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and businessman who owned Warrenscourt House (which was bought by his grandfather, Wallis Warren, in 1703) and Crookstown House (which he inherited from his father's marriage to Anne Crooke) in County Cork.[1]

Life

He was the eldest son of Robert Warren, of Warrenscourt House, and Anne Crooke, a descendant of Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, who founded the town of Baltimore, County Cork.[2]

In 1768 he, Richard Tonson, Sir James St Jeffryes and James Bernard founded Tonson's Bank, later to be called Warren's Bank.[3] Warren's Bank, which had over £500,000 on its launch in 1768,[4] funded elections and loaned money to contractors in the American War of Independence.[2] Warren's Bank collapsed in September 1784 owing to banking difficulties in Cork.[3][5]

In 1750 he was made a Justice of the Peace for County Cork[6] and in 1752 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork.[7] Warren also helped to set up the Muskerry militia and target the Whiteboy movement.[2]

He was made a Baronet, of Warren's Court, on 7 July 1784.

Children

He married, firstly, Mary Carré, daughter of Augustus Carre (or Carey), a wealthy merchant of Cork city, in 1748 and with her had issue:[8]

He married, secondly, Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of John Lawton, in 1780 and with her had issue:[8]

Ancestry

Through his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir George Shurley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, he was a direct descendant of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Lady Margaret Butler through their daughter Margaret Boleyn, an aunt of Anne Boleyn. Margaret Boleyn had married John Sackville, whose daughter Anne Sackville, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn, married Sir Nicholas Pelham. One of Sir Nicholas Pelham's daughters with Anne Sackville, Anne Pelham, had married Thomas Shurley and was the mother of Sir George Shirley.[12][13][14]

References

  1. ^ Landed Estates Database: Warren of Warren's Court
  2. ^ a b c O'Sullivan, Aidan. The Warrens of Warrenscourt. Kilmurry Museum.
  3. ^ a b Eoin O’Kelly, The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster, pt.1: bankers of Cork and Limerick cities. (Cork, 1959).
  4. ^ The Cork Chronicle. 12 May 1768.
  5. ^ Cullen, Louise. Anglo-Irish Trade, 1660-1800. Page 171. Manchester University Press, 1968.
  6. ^ Anthony Edwards, Edward’s Cork Remembrancer, or tablet of memory (Cork, 1792).
  7. ^ "High Sheriffs of the County of Cork". Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  8. ^ a b c d Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003: volume 3, page 4074
  9. ^ Bernard, Sir Burke, editor, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 4th ed. (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1958), page 42.
  10. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003: volume 2, page 1850.
  11. ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 429
  12. ^ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p. 328
  13. ^ Pelham, Nicholas, History of Parliament Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  14. ^ Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families. Royal Ancestry Series. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, Utah. pp. 385–386]. ISBN 9781461045137.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
Baronetage of Ireland New creation Baronet (of Warren's Court) 1784–1811 Succeeded byAugustus Louis Carre Warren
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