Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond (14 August 1688 – 20 April 1741) was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament.[1]
Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond
He was born the son of Henry Horatio O'Brien, Lord Ibrackan, who was to predecease his own father in 1690, allowing the title of Earl of Thomond to pass directly to Henry from his grandfather, Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond one year later.
He died in 1741 and was buried in Limerick Cathedral. He had married in 1707 Lady Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. They had no children and thus the viscountcy expired. His other titles were forfeited and were eventually inherited by the earls of Inchiquin.
He left his substantial estates in County Clare to Murrough, Lord O'Brien, the young son of his cousin, William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin. On Murrough's death in 1741, the estates passed instead to Percy Wyndham, a nephew of Henry's wife, who took the additional surname of O'Brien and in 1756 was created Earl of Thomond.[2]
References
^"O'BRIEN, Henry, 7th Earl of Thomond [I] (1688-1741), of Great Billing, Northants. and co. Clare". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
^"Estate: O'Brien (Thomond)". NUI Galway. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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