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1ST EARL JAMES CAULFEILD CHARLEMONT

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL See also:JAMES CAULFEILD See also:CHARLEMONT  of (1728–1799), Irish statesman, son of the 3rd See also:viscount See also:Charlemont, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the ,8th of See also:August 1728, and succeeded his See also:father as 4th viscount in 1734 . The See also:title of Charlemont descended from See also:Sir Toby Caulfeild (1565–1627) of See also:Oxfordshire, See also:England, who was given lands in See also:Ireland, and created See also:Baron Charlemont (the name of a fort on the See also:Blackwater), for his services to See also:King See also:James I. in 162o, and the 1st viscount was the'5th baron (d . 1671), who was advanced by See also:Charles II . See also:Lord Charlemout is historically interesting for his See also:political connexion with See also:Flood and See also:Grattan; V 29—Ihe was a cultivated See also:man with See also:literary and See also:artistic tastes, and both in Dublin and in See also:London his amiable See also:character gave him considerable social See also:influence . For various See also:early services in Ireland he was made an See also:earl in 1763, but he disregarded See also:court favours and cordially joined Grattan in 178o in the assertion of Irish See also:independence . He was See also:president of the volunteer See also:convention in Dublin in See also:November 1783, having taken from the first a leading See also:part in the embodiment of the See also:volunteers; and he was a strong opponent of the proposals for the See also:Union .. He died on the 4th of August 1799; his eldest son, who succeeded him, being subsequently (1837) created an See also:English baron . His See also:Life, by F . See also:Hardy, appeared in 181o .

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