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MORLKY — MORNING TON. 375 Wcstonbirt, co. Gloucester, by Mary Auue, 2d da. o£ Lieut. Gen. James Lisdsay, o£ Dalcarres. [Edmunm) Robert Parker, si pled Viscount Lurixgdox, lata and It. up., b. 19 April 1877.] Family Estates. — These, in 1830, consisted of 1,238 acres in Devonshire, worth .68,209 a year. The property of the Dowager Countess vas 10,5 10 aires iu eo. Cavan, worth A'2,731 a year, and 1,921 acres in Devon, worth £2,465 a year. MORNE. i.<, " Newry axd Mouxe, co. Down," Yiscounlcy [I.] (Needhitm), er. 1S22, with tho Eauldom uk Kilmoiiev [I], which see. }IORXIXGTOX.(") Barony [I.] i. Riciurd Colley, aflerwanh (1728), Wesley, t.f I 17-1G Dangan Castle, co. Meath, 6th and yst. s. but eventually (1720). heir male[^) of Henry Coi.i.f.Y, of Castle Carbery, CO. Kildare, by Mary, da. of Sir William USHER, of Dublin, was 6. about lli90 ; was some- time Auditor and Register of the Royal Hospital, near Dublin; second Chamberlain of the Court of Exchequer [LI, 1710 ; inherited (by devise) tlie estates of Dangan and Morniugtou, co. Meath, on the death s.p. of his cousin, Garret Wesley, ( c ) 10 March 1727, and took accordingly (pat. roll., 2 Geo. II.), the surname of lles/cy; was High .Sheriff of eo. Meath, 1701, being MJP. fur Trim from 1729 till he was er. 9 July 1716, BARON OF MORXINGTON, co. Meath [I.], taking his seat 6 Oct. 1717. He at, 20 Dec. 1719, Elisabeth, 1st da. of John Sale, LL.D., Register of the diocese of Dublin and fi.P. for Carysfort. She d. 17, and was bur. 20 Juue 170S, at St. Andrews, Dublin. He d. 31 Jan. 1758. II. 175S. 8 and /. Garret (Wesley alias Wei.lesley), Baron Tavlrl/ivr, rT 1 MoilKIKOTOa [LI only suiv. s. and h. ; b. 19 July an. 1 bap. 10 Aug. ' C ' a m0m L1,J 1735, at St. Andrews," Dublin; M.P. for co. Meath, 1 757, till he sue. I. 1700. to the peerage [I.], 31 Jan. 175S, taking his seat 10 Keb. following ; t'usios Rot. tut co. Meath, 1759. He was er. 2 Oct. 1760, VISCOUtJT WEI.LESLEY OF DAXGAX CASTLK and KARL OF MORN1NGTUN, eo. Meath [1.1, taking his seat 19 Nov. 1761. He mi. 6 Feb. 1759, Anne. da. of Arthur (Hill, afiervards Hili-ThkVOH), 1st Visloint DuKOANSiON [I.], by his second wife Auue, da. of Edmund Francis STAKKORD. He (/. at Kensington, 22 May 1781, in his 50th year, ( d ) and was bur. iu Grosvenor chapel, South Audley street. His widow, who was 6. 23 June 1742, d. 10 lien. 1801, in her 90th year, and was bur. as afsd. Will pr. Sep. 1881, (") Moruiugton, or Mariner's town, styled in charters about 1200 " Villa Marinarii," belonged anciently to the family of Martin, of Castle Martin, whose heir, Joan, m. Sir Richard Wellealey, Sheriff of Kildare, 1115. ( b ) The Viscounts Harberton [I.] are the heirs general of the family of Colley, thro' Mary, the only child that had issue of Henry Colley, of Castle Carbery (who d. 1720), the 5th, but 1st surv. s. of Heury Colley abovenamed. This Mary m. 20 Oct. 1717, Arthur (Pomeroy), 1st Viscount and Baron Harberton of Carbery afsd. [1.] ( c ) He was son of another Garret Wesley, of Dangan, by Elizabeth da. of Dudley Colley, one of the seven paternal aunts of the said Richard Colley, his testamentary heir. This Richard Colley had in him (thro' the family of Cusaek) a slight strain of Wesley blood (tho' of course, no representation of that family) he being a yr. s. of Henry, s. and h. of Dudley, s. and h. of Sir Henry, s. and h. of another Sir Heniy, who was s. and h. of a third Sir Henry Colley or Cowley (all of Castle Carbeiy, co. Kildare), by Catharine, da. of Sir Thomas Vusaek, Lord Chancellor [I.], and Alison, da. of William Wesley, of Dangin, which lady was, accordingly, gnat-great great- great-grandmother to tho said Richard Colley. See also vol. ii, p. 392, note " a," sub " Cowley." () He was well kuowu for his musical talents.