Biography of Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore 1774-1841

On 3rd October 1771 [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 31] and [his mother] Margaret Butler [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Belmore in the County of Fermanagh.

On 11th July 1774 Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore was born to [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 34] and [his mother] Margaret Butler [aged 26] at Sackville Street Dublin.

In April 1775 [his mother] Margaret Butler [aged 27] died.

On 2nd March 1780 [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 39] and [his step-mother] Harriet Hobart Viscountess Belmore [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Countess Belmore in the County of Fermanagh. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of John Hobart 2nd Earl Buckinghamshire [aged 56] and Mary Anne Drury Countess Buckinghamshire.

On 6th December 1789 [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 49] was created 1st Viscount Belmore of Fermanagh. [his step-mother] Harriet Hobart Viscountess Belmore [aged 27] by marriage Viscountess Belmore of Fermanagh.

On 1st March 1794 [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 53] and [his step-mother] Mary Anne Caldwell Countess Belmore [aged 38] were married. She by marriage Viscountess Belmore of Fermanagh.

On 30th November 1797 [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 57] was created 1st Earl Belmore in the County of Fermanagh. [his step-mother] Mary Anne Caldwell Countess Belmore [aged 42] by marriage Countess Belmore in the County of Fermanagh.

Around 1800. Hugh Douglas Hamilton [aged 60]. Portrait of Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 25].

On 20th October 1800 Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 26] and Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 17] were married. He the son of Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 60] and Margaret Butler. They were first cousins.

On 28th December 1801 [his son] Armar Lowry-Corry 3rd Earl Belmore was born to Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 27] and [his wife] Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 18]. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.27%. He married before 9th April 1835 Emily Louise Shepherd Countess Belmore and had issue.

On 2nd February 1802 [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore [aged 61] died at Bath, Somerset [Map]. His son Somerset [aged 27] succeeded 2nd Earl Belmore in the County of Fermanagh, Viscount Belmore of Fermanagh and Baron Belmore of Castle Coole in the County of Fermanagh. [his wife] Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 18] by marriage Countess Belmore in the County of Fermanagh.

On 9th March 1803 [his son] Henry Lowry-Corry was born to Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 28] and [his wife] Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 19]. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.27%. He married 1830 his half sixth cousin Harriet Anne Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Cropley Ashley-Cooper 6th Earl Shaftesbury and Anne Spencer-Churchill Countess Shaftesbury, and had issue.

On 9th July 1804 [his brother-in-law] George Montagu 6th Earl Sandwich [aged 31] and [his half-sister] Louisa Lowry-Corry Countess of Sandwich [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Armar Lowry-Corry 1st Earl Belmore and [his step-mother] Harriet Hobart Viscountess Belmore [aged 42]. He the son of John Montagu 5th Earl Sandwich [aged 60] and Maria Henrietta Powlett.

On 6th June 1814 John Montagu 5th Earl Sandwich [aged 70] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Barnwell [Map]. His son [his brother-in-law] George [aged 41] succeeded 6th Earl Sandwich. [his half-sister] Louisa Lowry-Corry Countess of Sandwich [aged 33] by marriage Countess Sandwich.

In 1828 Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 53] was appointed Governor of Jamaica which post he held until 1832.

In 1830 Henry Lowry-Corry [aged 26] and Harriet Anne Ashley-Cooper were married. She the daughter of Cropley Ashley-Cooper 6th Earl Shaftesbury [aged 61] and Anne Spencer-Churchill Countess Shaftesbury [aged 57]. He the son of Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 55] and Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 46]. They were half sixth cousins.

Before 9th April 1835 Armar Lowry-Corry 3rd Earl Belmore [aged 33] and Emily Louise Shepherd Countess Belmore [aged 20] were married. He the son of Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 60] and Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 51].

On 18th April 1841 Somerset Lowry-Corry 2nd Earl Belmore [aged 66] died at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire [Map]. His son Armar [aged 39] succeeded 3rd Earl Belmore in the County of Fermanagh, Viscount Belmore of Fermanagh and Baron Belmore of Castle Coole in the County of Fermanagh. Emily Louise Shepherd Countess Belmore [aged 26] by marriage Countess Belmore in the County of Fermanagh.

On 22nd July 1861 [his former wife] Juliana Butler Countess Belmore [aged 77] died.