Warner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore

Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore (* October 14, 1765, † 10 August or December 10, 1842 ) was a British nobleman and politician.

Life

Warner William Westenra was the eldest son of Henry Westenra and his wife Harriet, daughter of the Irish members John Murray. He attended the Oswestry School, and after the Trinity College in Dublin. In 1800 he was a member of the Irish House of Commons. Once, due to the Act of Union in 1800 and the consequent union of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, the Irish to the British Parliament was incorporated, represented Westenra, a Überstüzer this Union, the constituency of County Monaghan to the August 6, 1801 now in the British House of Commons.

His departure from the House of Commons was due to the fact that he Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore succeeded on August 6, 1801 Baron Rossmore in the Peerage of Ireland. His wife, Elizabeth, Lady Rossmore. was Westenras maternal aunt. The title had been created with a special succession plan, which he could also fall to the nephew of his wife lack of own sons of the first Baron.

Westenra cherished as such a desire as the first Baron Rossmore also an Irish Representative Peer in the House of Lords to be. However, this wish remained unfulfilled. In addition, he held the office of Custos Rotulorum of County Monaghan, as well as that of the Lord Lieutenant of County Monaghan. 1838 Westenra was raised to Baron Rossmore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As such, he now belonged to the House of Lords but still on.

On October 3, 1791, he married Mary Anne Walsh ( † August 12, 1807 ). The marriage produced six sons and one daughter were born. On June 3, 1819 he married Lady Augusta Charteris Wemyss, daughter of Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho. When he died in 1842, inherited by his eldest son Henry the title. Another son, John Craven Westenra was later also MP in the House of Commons.