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| 1841-1926 [Winham Thomas Wyndam Quin; 4th Earl; Order of St. Patrick]; b. Adare, ed. Rome and Christ Church Oxford; left college to join 1st Life Guards [cav.], 1865-67; succeed to Earldom, 1871 inheriting the 39,000 acres estate at Adare, Co. Limerick; and sat in the House of Lords; later took commission as lieutenant with Gloucester Yeomanry Cavalry up to 1875 [resigned]; extra aide-de-campe to Viceroy in Ireland, 1864; correspondent in Abyssinia (Daily Telegraph), aetat. 21; shared tent with Henry Stanley; Franco-Prussian War, and siege of Paris, 1870-71, witnessing the signing of the Treaty at Versailles, 1871; acted as US Civil War correspondent before succeeding to earldom [4th Earl and Mount-Earl]; explored Yellowstone Park, 1974; claimed 15, 000 acres in Colorado (later sold in 1926 to form Rocky Mountain National Park); hunted with Wild Bill Cody in Platte River; big game hunter; noted yachtsman in Valkyrie II and III [America’s Cup]; under-sec. for the Colonies, 1885-87; chaired Commission on Sweated Labour; issued Outlook for Ireland, the Case for Devolution and Conciliation (1897; 1907); |
| appt. hon. colonel of Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1897; raised battalion of Sharpshooters to fight the Boers, 1899-1901, and thereafter formed 3rd County of London (Sharpshooters) Imperial Yeomanry, 1901; appt. companion of Order of St Michael and St George for services in the S. African War, 1902; chaired the Irish Land Conference, 1902-03, in negotiations with William O’Brien, and resulting in the Wyndham Land (Purcahse) Act, 1903; founded Irish Reform Association, aiming at partial devolution, 1904 - displeasing both John Dillon (IPP) and the Ulster Unionists - who formed the UU Council, 1905 - and resulting in the departure of George Wyndham from the Chief-Secretaryship; appt. Senator of Free State, 1922-26, appt. by W. T. Cosgrave; issued Cheap Food for the People: An Open Letter to the People of Ireland (1925); contrib. ‘Historical Notice of Adare’ to Memorials of Dunraven by his mother, Caroline, Countess of Dunraven; Self Instruction in the Theory and Practice of Navigation (1900); The Irish Question (1880); The Legacy of Past Years, A Study of Irish History (1911); Canadian Nights (1914); Past Times and Pasttimes (1922); The Great Divide, the Upper Yellowstone (1876). he witnessed the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1918; d. London. CAB JMC DIW DIH FDA |
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References
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 2; Lord Dunraven [Windham Thomas Wyndham Quin] took the place of the nominated unionists who refused to attend the Land Conference of 1902-03 at the Mansion House. According to William O’Brien, ‘it is no longer doubtful that [George] Wyndham himsef, in whose veins course the generous blood of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, was an active sympathiser with Lord Dunraven’s tentative essays in Home Rule &c’ remarks by William O’Brien, in The Downfall of Parliamentarianism (1918).
Irish Literature, Justin McCarthy, ed. (Washington: University of America 1904); gives extract from The Great Divide. BIBL, CAB[?] cites Travels in Upper Yellowstone ... (1876) for this title. See also Irish Book Lover, Vol. 7.
Wikipedia - Notice on Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl [paraphrase]: Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (usu. Earl of Dunraven) in the Peerage of Ireland; created on 5 February 1822 for Valentine Quin, 1st Viscount Mount-Earl, prev. created Baronet of Adare in Co. Limerick, 1781, Baron Adare of Adare in the County of Limerick, on 31 July 1800, and Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816; ade Viscount Adare in 1822 and given the earldom in the Peerage of Ireland. Of Gaelic origin, the Quins married into Anglo-Irish families such as the Widenhams of Kildimo and the Dawsons of Dublin. The second Earl, represented Co. Limerick in Westminster, 1806-20 and also sat in the House of Lords, 1839-50 [obiit]; assumed his wife's maiden name Wyndham by Royal licence, 1815. The third Earl sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire from 1836-50 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Co. Limerick, 1864-71; given the additional title of Baron Kenry, of Kenry in Co., in the UK Peerage, 1866. The fourth Earl served in the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1885-86; Lord Lieutenant of Co. Limerick from 1894-26; Unionist in politics; chaired the Land Conference called by George Wyndham, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1902 - representing the landlord side; played a decisive role iwith William O'Brien the drafting of the Wyndham Land Purchase Act (1903); served as Senator of the Irish Free State, 1922-26; barony of Kenry became extinct at his death; published memoir as Past Times and Pastimes (Hodder & Stoughton 1922); succeeded in the other titles by his cousin who had previously represented South Glamorganshire a Conservative PM, 1895-06; all the titles extinct when the seventh Earl died on 25 March 2011 at his residence, Kilgobbin House, in Adare - the former family seat being Adare Manor in Co. Limerick which was sold by the Dunraven family in 1982 and became a luxury hotel. Dunraven Castle [recte Dunraven House at Dunraven Bay, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire], was demolished in 1963 but the gardens survive; it was used as a hospital in both Worlrd Wars and served as guest house for some years. In the First and Second World Wars the house served as a military hospital. The Fourth Earl arrived at the future Estes Park, Colorado, in late-Dec. 1872, repeatedly returned and unsuccessfully attempted to take over the valley as a private hunting preserve; he controlled 6,000 acres and pened the area's first resort, the Estes Park Hotel, destroyed by fire in 1911. (Available online; accessed 21.11.2020.)
Cathach Bks (Cat. 12): The Finances of Ireland – Before the Union and After (London 1912); also The Crisis in Ireland (London 1920), complimentary copy from author; Past Times and Pastimes, 2 vols. (1922).
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