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448 TYRCONNELL — TYRONE. VI. 1805. 3. Oeoiige (CAnPENTKn), Earl op Tyrconksi,, <fee. [I.], nephew and h. male, being 1st s. and b. of tlie Hon. Charles Cahpknteh, Capt. R.N., by Elizabeth, only da. of Thomas M At'KKNziK, of Richmond, which Charles (who d. 5 Sep. 1803, aged 46) was 2d and yst. p. of the 1st Karl. He was 6. 10 Oct. 17S8; sue. to the peerage [I.J, 1;' April 1805 ; served in the Russian army as a volunteer, iu which service, he d. num. at. Wilna, 20 Dec. 1S12, "of a pulmonic complaiut," from fatigue iu the pursuit of the French, aged 24. Aduion. Feb. 1813, and again, Feb. 1S14. VII. 18)2, J f . John Pelaval (Carpenter), Earl of Ttrconnel to [I. 1 7tUl Visoh nt Caru»qh>ro [1. 1761], and Babod C*«mktss 1853. OP Kii.i.aohy [I. 171P|, only br. and h. He was b. at Plymouth Dock (i.e. Devonport). Id Dec. 1790 ; sue. to the peerage [I.], 20 Dec. 1S12; G.C.H. (civil), 1830. He ffl., 1 Oct. 1817, Sarah, da. and h. of Robert Crowe, of Kiplin Park, co. York, by Auue, da. of Christopher BoCKLE, of Burgh in Banstead, cn. Surrey. He d. s.p.s., 25 June 1 8f>3, at Kiplin Park afsd., Aged 02. when all his honours became extinct. Will pr. April lS. r i3. His widow rf. there, of bronchitis, 23 Jan. 1868, aged 03. Will pr. at York, under £16,000.(«) TYRIE, see TiMB. TYRONE. Earldom [I.] /. Cox Bacaoh O'Xeill ("the Lime"), Chief of I 1542 Tyrone, yr. s. of Con O'Nwi.t., Chief of Tyrone, by Alice, da. of Gerald (FlTIOERAU)), 7th K.aiii. of Kii.uahk [T.J, was 6. about 1484 and sue. his elder br., Art Oge O'Nku.i., in 1M9, as the head of his family. As early as 1520 he invaded the English Pale, and, tho' in 1624 he carried the Sword of State at the installation of his Kiin-man, 'he Karl of Kildare, as Chief Governor [I j was in constant, warfare with the Engliab, till he was finally crushed in 1341, when he renounced the style of " Tin. OWcill^C't and, having submitted himself to Henry VIII. at Greenwich, was by him cr. 1 Oct. 1542, KARL OF TYRONE [I.] for lifef) with rem to his [illegit.] sou Matthew, or Ferdoraghe, in tail male,t d .l receiving also a gold chain, 100 marks, a grant of lands iu Dublin and being, 7 May 1543, made P.C. [1 ] He m. firstly Mary, da. of Hugh Boy O'NEILL, of Claudelmye. He m. secondly ( — ) da. of (— ) O'Byiink, having male issue by both wives. He </. about 1559 in the English Pale, whither he had tied for safety in one of the many rebellious, headed by his own sous, against him. [Matthew, otherwise Ferdoraghe, O'Neill, illegit, s. by Alison (wife. of a Blacksmith at Dundalk) was cr. v.r>. 1 Sep. 1542 (in the same patent wherein his father was made an Karl) BARON OF DUNGANNON [1.] "to hold the dignity (a) She devised the Kiplin estate to Walter Cecil Talbot, 2d s. of the Earl of Shrewsbury, with a couditiou as to his remaining a Protestant, &c. ( b ) In this (as in other of the old Irish rac«s) election was made of the most prominent member to the Headship of the family, under the designation of " The O'Neill " (" The O'Brien," " The O'Connor." &c0, the ceremony being performed, in the case of the O'Neills (the greatest of the " Toparckt" in Ulster) at the inaugu- ration-stone of Tulloghoge, which was destroyed by the Knglish in 1603. The person designated to succeed to the dignity was called " Tke Tanist." ( c ) The words are " prefato Connacio pro termino vite sue, ac post decessum pre- dict! Connacii, probatissimo viro snbditn nostro Mathco, alias Ferdoraghe O'Nele, filio predict! Connacii ac heredibuB masculinis do corpora predict! Mathei exeuntibus remanere" [Put. I<ot.] ( d ) Shane O'Neill ("the Proud "). the eldest legit, b. by the 1st wife, was apparently not 4. till about 1530. and w as probably passed over on account of his youth. He after- wards headed the Irish party against his father (whose Submission to the Knglish was considered degrading) and Lis brother Matthew. This was " the O'Neill " (for he took upon him that designation), whose appearance in London, 4 Jan. 1501 '2, excited such sensation, and whose turbulent career waa ended by assassination, 2 June 1567, at the hands of the MucDouuells.