Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon (26 November 1755 – 26 November 1830)[1] was an Irish peer and politician.
He was the only son of James Bernard and his wife Esther Smith, daughter of Percy Smith.[2] Between 1778 and 1783, Bernard sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ennis.[1] Subsequently, he represented Bandonbridge in the Irish House of Commons until 1790.[1]
In 1793, Bernard was raised to the peerage with the title Baron Bandon, of Bandonbridge, in the County of Cork,[3] and in 1795, he was further ennobled as Viscount Bandon, of Bandonbridge, in the County of Cork.[4] On 29 August 1800, he was finally advanced to the dignities of Earl of Bandon and Viscount Bernard.[5] Bernard was one of the twenty eight original Irish representative peers[6] and sat in the House of Lords between from 1801 until his death in 1830.
On 12 February 1784, Bernard married Catherine Henrietta Boyle, only daughter of the 2nd Earl of Shannon and Catherine Ponsonby.[6] They had five sons and four daughters.[2] He died aged 75 at Castle Bernard and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son James.[6]
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- ^ a b c "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 74.
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- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c "ThePeerage - Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon". Retrieved 24 March 2009.