Baron Clarina, of Elm in the County of Limerick, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 27 December 1800 for General Eyre Massey.[1] The third Baron sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer between 1849 and 1872. The fourth Baron was an Irish representative peer between 1888 and 1897.[2] The barony became extinct on the death of the sixth Baron on 4 November 1952.

Hugh Massy, 1st Baron Massy, was the elder brother of the first Baron Clarina.

Barons Clarina (1800) edit

Arms edit

Coat of arms of Baron Clarina
Crest
Out of a ducal coronet Or a bull's head Gules armed Sable.
Escutcheon
Argent on a chevron between three fusils Sable a lion passant Or.
Supporters
Two grenadier soldiers in the uniform of the 27th Foot Proper each holding in his exterior hand a sword also Proper.
Motto
Pro Libertate Patriae [3]

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See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "No. 15326". The London Gazette. 6 January 1801. pp. 39–40.
  2. ^ "BARON CASTLEMAINE HONORED.; Elected an Irish Representative Peer in Baron Clarina's Place". nytimes.com. 3 October 1898.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

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