He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.[2] Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church, Oxford.[3]
On 21 September 1876, he married Mary Beatrice Armstrong, youngest daughter of the art historian Walter Armstrong.[5] They had one son.[5] Mary Beatrice is buried in the Armstrong family vault on the inside of the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery.
References
^ ab. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ab"ThePeerage - Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett". Retrieved 19 March 2007.
^ abcDebrett, John (1881). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 20.
^ abBurke, Bernhard (1912). Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons.
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett
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