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Marquess of Headfort is a title in the
Peerage of Ireland. It was created in
1800 for
Thomas Taylor, 2nd Earl of Bective.
The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of
Earl of Bective (1766),
Viscount Headfort (1762),
Baron Headfort, of Headfort in the County of Meath, (1760), and
Baron Kenlis, of Kenlis in the County of Meath (1831), all but the last in the
Peerage of Ireland. He is also an Irish
baronet. Before the passage of the
House of Lords Act 1999, the Marquess sat in the
House of Lords as
Baron Kenlis in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The family descends from Thomas Taylor who came to Ireland during the 1650's from Sussex in England to oversee on behalf of Parliament the fiscal expenditure of Oliver Cromwell's campaign in Ireland and later undertook the duties of a cartographer assisting with Sir William Petty's project of mapping Ireland. Taylor's son also Thomas Taylor represented
Kells in the
Irish House of Commons and in
1704 he was created a
Baronet, of Kells in the County of Meath, in the
Baronetage of Ireland. His grandson, the third Baronet, also sat for Kells in the Irish House of Commons. In
1760 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as
Baron Headfort, of Headfort in the County of Meath. Two years later he was created
Viscount Headfort and in
1766 he was even further honoured when he was made
Earl of Bective. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He was one of the 28 original
Irish Representative Peers in the House of Lords. In
1800 he was created
Marquess of Headfort in the Peerage of Ireland. His son, the second Marquess, assumed the surname of Taylour in lieu of Taylor. In
1831 he was created
Baron Kenlis, of Kenlis in the County of Meath, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This gave the Marquesses an automatic seat in the House of Lords. Lord Headfort served as a Government
Whip in the
Whig administration of
Lord Melbourne and was also
Lord Lieutenant of Cavan. His son, the third Marquess, represented
Westmorland in Parliament as a
Conservative and also served as
Lord Lieutenant of County Meath. His son from his first marriage,
Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament. However, he predeceased his father and on Lord Downshire's death the titles passed to his son from his second marriage, the fourth Marquess. He was a
Senator of the
Irish Free State. As of
2007 the titles are held by his great-grandson, the seventh Marquess, who succeeded his father in
2005.
As of 30 June 2006, the present holder of the Marquessate hasn't successfully proven his succession to the Baronetcy and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. However, the case is under review by the Registrar of the Baronetage (for more information follow this
link
).
Another member of the Taylour family was
Clotworthy Taylor, the fourth son of the first Earl of Bective. He assumed the surname of Rowley in lieu of Taylor and was created
Baron Langford in the Peerage of Ireland in
1800. Also, Reverend Hon. Henry Edward Taylor, fifth son of the first Earl of Bective, was the father of the Conservative politician
Thomas Edward Taylor, who served as
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in
1868 and from
1874 to
1880.
Taylor Baronets, of Kells (1704)
Earls of Bective (1766)
Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (1724-1795)
Thomas Taylour, 2nd Earl of Bective (1757-1829) (created Marquess of Headfort in 1800)
Marquesses of Headfort (1800)
Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort (1757-1829)
Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort (1787-1870)
Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort (1822-1894)
Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort (1878-1943)
Terence Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 5th Marquess of Headfort (1902-1960)
Thomas Geoffrey Charles Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort (1932-2005)
Thomas Michael Ronald Christopher Taylour, 7th Marquess of Headfort (b. 1959)
The Heir Apparent is the present holder's son Thomas Rupert Charles Christopher Taylour, Earl of Bective (b. 1989)
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