BALTIMORE— BALTINGLASS. 227 Surrey, Ui Bart., by Wiliiamsa, da. of Sir Robert Henley of the Grange, Hants. He d, 24 April 1751, and was bur. at Erith, Kent. WM dat. 17 Nov. 1760, pr. 30 April 1751. His widow d. at Chaillot, near Paris, 25 March 1770. Will 1751. VI. 1751, 6. Frederick (Calvert), Baron Baltimore [I.], only s. to and h. 6. 6 Feb. 1731-2. He m. 9 March 1753 Diana, da. of Serope 1771. (EoERTOS), 1st Di.-ke op Bridgewater, by his 2nd wife Raehael, da. of Wriotheslev (Russell), 2nd Ddke of Bedford. She who was b. 3 March 1731-2,. 18 Aug. 1758. Admon. 21 Nov. 1758. After a career of profligacy and extravagance he was tried for a rape at Kingston assizes 26 March 176'S, ami having with some- difficulty escaped conviction (see Gent. Mag., 17b'S, p. 180) left England. He d. s.p. at Naples 4 Sep. 1771, when the Peerage became etftnef. Will pr. 17 Jan. 1772. Family Estate!.— Most of theae were sold by the last Lord to John Trotter, an upholsterer of Soho, Midx. BALTINGLASS. Viscounts [I ] l. Sir Thomas Eustace of Harristown, nephew and h. I 1511 male of Rowland (Eustace or Fitz Eustace), Lord Pohtlester [I.], b. about 14S0, Mic. hia said uncle in the family estates 14 Dec. 1496, was cr. BARON KILCULLEN, co. Kildare, in Sep. 1535,(") and subsequently, 29 June 1541, was cr. VISCOUNT BALT1NGLASS, co. Wicklow [I.] He is said to have possessed one half of the co. of Wicklow. He m. Margaret, da. of Sir Peter Talbot of Malahide, co. Dublin, by Catharine, da. of Gerald (Fitz Gerald), Earl of Kildare [I.] He d. 31 July 1549. II. 1549. 2. Rowland (Eustace), Viscount Baltinclass, &c. [1.1 s. and h. Knighted v.p. Aged 35 in 1540. On 16 Nov. 1549 lie had livery of the family estates. He m. Joane, da. of James (Butler), Lord Dwboyne [I.], by Joan, da. of Piers (Butler), Stb. Earl ok Ormonde [I.] He </. about 1570. ILT. 1570? 3. James (Eustace), Viscount Baltinglass, &c. [11 s- and h. In 1576 he joined with other "Lords of the Pale" in a complaint aa to taxes being levied without sanction of Pari, and, subsequently, joined the Earl of Desmond [I.] in a conspiracy to place the Queen of Scots on the English and Irish throne, which failing he, in 15S3, fled from hia country. He hi. Mary, da. and coheir of Sir Henry Travehs of Monkstown Castle, co. Dublin, by Genet Preston, He d. s.p., in Spain, 1583. His widow m. (as his first wife) Gerard Aylmer (who was cr. a Bart. [I.] in 1621) and d. 28 Nov. 1610. IV. 1583, Jf. "William (Eustace), Viscount Baltinglass and to Baron Kilcullen [I.], next surv. br. and h. He m. Margaret, da. 1585. and h. of (— ) Ashe of Great Forenass, co. Kildare. By an " ex post facto " Act of Pari., 1585, passed against the last Lord, two years after his death (called " the Statute of Baltinglass"), the honours of this family were attainted and the entailed estates forfeited. This William is said to have been living in Loudon styling himself " Viscount Baltinglass " in 1610.( b ) (") Ware's Anuais, 93. ( b ) The petition, in 1839, of the Rev. Charles Eustace, the h. male of the body of this William, for the acknowledgement of his right to the title was favourably reported upon by the law officers of Ireland and England, subject to the reversal of the attainder. See an account of these proceedings as also of the present state of the family in Burke's "Extinct Peerage," 1883, p. 191.
