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O'Hagan, Baron (UK, 1870)

Creation: let. pat. 14 Jun 1870

Family name: O'Hagan later Towneley-O'Hagan later Strachey

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Ermine a Bend and on a Chief Azure a Fleur-de-lis Or (O'Hagan);  2nd and 3rd, Argent a Fess and in chief three Mullets Sable (Towneley)

Crests:

1st:  Upon a Fasces fesswise proper a Cubit Arm vested Gules cuffed Ermine the Hand holding a Dagger erect both also proper (O'Hagan); 2nd:  Upon a Perch Or a Hawk close proper beaked and belled Gold round the perch a Riband Gules (Towneley)

Supporters:

On either side a lion Or collared gemel Sable pendant therefrom an Escutcheon Argent charged with a Dexter Hand couped Gules

Motto:

Mihi Res Non Me Rebus (Possessions exist for me, not me for them)

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Thomas [O'Hagan], 1st Baron O'Hagan, KP PC

son of Edward O'Hagan, of Belfast, by his wife Mary Bell, dau. of Capt Thomas Bell

born

29 May 1812

mar. (1)

5 Feb 1836 Mary Teeling (dspms. Oct 1868), dau. of Charles Hamilton Teeling, of Belfast

children by first wife

1. Charles O'Hagan (b. 1838; dvp. 1840)

1. Hon Madeleine O'Hagan (dsp. 14 Oct 1875), mar. 2 Jul 1870 Col John MacDonnell, of Kilmore, co. Antrim (d. 13 Sep 1905)

2. Hon Frances Mary O'Hagan (dsp. 1910), mar. 2 Dec 1865 Mr Justice John O'Hagan, Chief Commissioner, Irish Land Court (d. Nov 1890)

mar. (2)

2 Aug 1871 Alice Mary Towneley (d. 20 Nov 1921), yst. dau. and cohrss. of Charles Towneley, of Towneley, co. Lancaster, by his wife Lady Caroline Harriet Molyneux, 5th dau. of William Philip [Molyneux], 2nd Earl of Sefton

children by second wife

2. Hon Thomas Towneley O'Hagan, later 2nd Baron O'Hagan

3. Hon Maurice Herbert Towneley O'Hagan later Towneley-O'Hagan, later 3rd Baron O'Hagan

3. Hon Kathleen Mary O'Hagan (b. 13 May 1876; d. 25 Mar 1974), mar. 20 May 1897 Louis Leopold Martial Baynard de Beaumont (d. 6 Apr 1934), and had issue

4. Hon Mary Caroline O'Hagan DBE (b. 25 Nov 1879; dsp. 28 Aug 1972), mar. 1 Oct 1912 Gen Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Bt., GCB GCSI GCMG (d. 7 Dec 1929)

died

1 Feb 1885

created

14 Jun 1870 Baron O'Hagan, of Tullahogue in the County of Tyrone

suc. by

son by second wife

note

barrister 1836; Queen's Counsel 1849; Third Serjeant of Ireland 1859-60; Solicitor-General of Ireland 1860-61;  Attorney-General of Ireland 1861-65;  Privy Councillor [I] 1861; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Tralee 1863-65; Justice of the Common Pleas of Ireland 1865-68;  Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1868-74 and 1880-81; Towneley Trustee of the British Museum 1878-85; Vice Chancellor, Royal University 1881-85; Knight of St Patrick 1882

Thomas Towneley [O'Hagan], 2nd Baron O'Hagan

born

5 Dec 1878

died

13 Dec 1900

suc. by

brother

note

Lieut, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards ; served in the South African War 1899-1900, and died of enteric fever whilst on active service

Maurice Herbert Towneley [O'Hagan later Towneley-O'Hagan], 3rd Baron O'Hagan

born

20 Feb 1882

mar. (1)

27 Apr 1911 Hon Frances Constance Magdalena Strachey (d. 1 Aug 1931), only dau. of Edward [Strachey], 1st Baron Strachie, by his wife Constance Braham, dau. of Charles Bampfylde Braham

children by first wife

1. Maj Hon (Thomas) Anthony Edward Towneley-O'Hagan later Strachey (b. 13 Sep 1917; dvp. 23 Dec 1955), mar. 11 Nov 1944 Lady Mary Sophia Palmer (mar. (2) 1981 (Francis) St John Gore; d. 17 Aug 2000), 3rd dau. of Roundell Cecil [Palmer], 3rd Earl of Selborne, by his first wife Hon Grace Ridley, 3rd dau. of Matthew White [Ridley], 1st Viscount Ridley, and had issue:

1a. Charles Towneley Strachey, later 4th Baron O'Hagan

2a. Hon Richard Towneley Strachey, heir presumptive to the Barony of O'Hagan, granted rank and style of a Baron's younger son by Royal Licence 1963 (b. 29 Dec 1950), mar. 1983 Sally Anne Cross, 2nd dau. of Frederick Cecil Cross

1a. Hon Frances Towneley Strachey, granted rank and style of a Baron's daughter by Royal Licence 1963 (b. 5 Mar 1948), mar. 31 Mar 1967 Hon Hugh Marcus Thornley Gibson, of The Fold, Parwich, co. Derby (b. 23 Jun 1946), 2nd son of (Richard) Patrick Tallentyre [Gibson], Baron Gibson (Life Peer), by his wife (Elizabeth) Dione Pearson, 3rd dau. of Maj Hon (Bernard) Clive Pearson (by his wife Hon Alicia Mary Dorothea Knatchbull-Hugessen, only dau. by his second wife of Edward Hugessen [Knatchbull later Knatchbull-Hugessen], 1st Baron Brabourne), 2nd son of Weetman Dickinson [Cowdray], 1st Viscount Cowdray, and has issue

2a. Hon Jane Towneley Strachey, granted rank and style of a Baron's daughter by Royal Licence 1963 (b. 10 Mar 1953), mar. 1972 (div. 1977) William Stone

1. Hon Helen Frances Alice Towneley-O'Hagan

mar. (2)

30 Jul 1937 Evelyn Violet Cadogan (widow of Lt Col Henry Osbert Samuel Cadogan;  d. 26 Nov 1965), dau. of Harry Thornton Ross

died

18 Dec 1961

suc. by

grandson

note

Assistant Private Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty 1906-07; a Lord-in-Waiting 1907-10; served in World War I 1914-18 as Captain, Royal Horse Artillery

Charles Towneley [Strachey], 4th Baron O'Hagan

born

6 Sep 1945

mar. (1)

13 Jul 1967 (div. 1984) HSH Princess Tamara Imeretinsky (former wife of Lt Cmdr Thomas Mervyn Smith-Dorrien-Smith RN, of Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly), 1st dau. of S/Ldr HSH Prince Michael Imeretinsky, of La Colle, Route de Castellar, Menton, France, by his wife Margaret Stella Kinnaird, former wife of Hon Patrick Charles Kinnaird MC (5th son of Arthur Fitzgerald [Kinnaird], 11th Lord Kinnaird, by his wife and cousin Mary Alma Victoria Agnew, 5th dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, 8th Bt.) and 2nd dau. of Henry FitzHerbert Wright, of Yeldersley Hall, co. Derby

only child by first wife

1. Hon Nina Natalia O'Hagan Strachey

mar. (2)

Mar 1985 (div. 1995) Mrs Mary Claire Parsons, only dau. of Rev Leslie Roose-Francis, of Trencoth, Blisland, Bodmin, co. Cornwall

only child by second wife

2. Hon Antonia Philippa Mary Strachey

mar. (3)

Dec 1995 Elizabeth Lesley Eve Smith, dau. of Hubert Smith, of Exeter. co. Devon

note

Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II 1959-62; Member of the European Parliament (Independent) 1973-75 and for Devon (Conservative) 1979-94; Junior Opposition Whip, House of Lords 1977-79

The heir presumptive to the Barony of O'Hagan is Hon Richard Towneley Strachey, a grandson of the 3rd Baron O'Hagan and younger brother of the present Baron.

 Last updated 24 Apr 2004

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Title:

4th Baron O'Hagan, of Tullahogue in the County of Tyrone

(United Kingdom, let. pat. 14 Jun 1870)

Address:

The Old Rectory, Weare Giffard, Devon EX39 4QP

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