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2ND DUKE OF JAMES BUTLER ORMONDE (166...

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKE OF See also:JAMES See also:BUTLER See also:ORMONDE (1665-1745)  , Irish statesman and soldier, son of See also:Thomas, See also:earl of See also:Ossory, and See also:grandson of the 1st See also:duke, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 29th of See also:April 1665, and was educated in See also:France and afterwards at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford . On the See also:death of his See also:father in 168o he became earl of Ossory by See also:courtesy . He obtained command of a See also:cavalry See also:regiment in See also:Ireland in 1684, and having received an See also:appointment at See also:court on the See also:accession of See also:James II., he served against the duke of See also:Monmouth . Having succeeded his grandfather as duke of See also:Ormonde in 1688, he joined See also:William of See also:Orange, by whom he was made See also:colonel of a regiment of See also:horse-See also:guards, which he commanded at the See also:battle of the See also:Boyne . In 1691 he served on the See also:continent under William, and after the accession of See also:Anne he was placed in command of the See also:land forces co-operating with See also:Sir See also:George See also:Rooke in See also:Spain . Having been made a privy councillor, Ormonde succeeded See also:Rochester as See also:viceroy of Ireland in 1703, a See also:post which he held till 1707 . On the dismissal of the duke of See also:Marlborough in 1711, Ormonde was appointed See also:captain.. See also:general in his See also:place, and allowed himself to be made the See also:tool of the Tory See also:ministry, whose policy was to carry on the See also:war in the See also:Netherlands while giving See also:secret orders to Ormonde to take no active See also:part in supporting their See also:allies under See also:Prince See also:Eugene Ormonde's position as captain-general made him a personage of much importance in the crisis brought about by the death of See also:Queen Anne . Though he had supported the revolution of 1688, he was traditionally a Tory, and See also:Lord See also:Bolingbroke was his See also:political See also:leader . During the last years of Queen Anne he almost certainly had Jacobite leanings, and corresponded with the duke of See also:Berwick . He joined Bolingbroke and Oxford, however, in See also:signing the See also:proclamation of See also:King George I., by whom he was nevertheless deprived of the captain-generalship . In See also:June 1715 he was impeached, and fled to France, where he for some See also:time resided with Bolingbroke, and in 1716 his immense estates were confiscated to the See also:crown by See also:act of See also:parliament, though by a subsequent act his See also:brother, See also:Charles See also:Butler, earl of See also:Arran, was enabled to repurchase them . After taking part in the Jacobite invasion in 1715, Ormonde settled in Spain, where he was in favour at court and enjoyed a See also:pension from the crown .

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life he resided much at See also:Avignon, where he was seen in 1733 by See also:Lady See also:Mary Wortley See also:Montagu . Ormonde died on the 16th of See also:November 1745, and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey . With little of his grandfather's ability, and inferior to him in See also:elevation of See also:character, Ormonde was nevertheless one of the See also:great figures of his time . Handsome, dignified, magnanimous and open-handed, and See also:free from the meanness, treachery and venality of many of his leading contemporaries, he enjoyed a popularity which, with greater stability of purpose, might have enabled him to exercise commanding See also:influence over events . 298 See Thomas See also:Carte, Hist. of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde (6 vols., Oxford, 1851), which contains much See also:information respecting the life of the second duke; Earl See also:Stanhope, Hist. of See also:England, comprising the Reign of Queen Anne until the See also:Peace of See also:Utrecht (See also:London, 187o) ; F . W . See also:Wyon, Hist. of Great See also:Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne (2 vols., London, 1876) ; William See also:Coxe, See also:Memoirs of See also:Marl-See also:borough (3 vols., new edition, London, 1847) .

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