VISCOUNT AVONMORE.
WAIRARaPA claimant to the TITLE.
In its cable announcement that Mr Barry Yelverton, dairy farmer, of Featherstnn, Wairarapa, claims to succeed to the title of the late Viscount Avonmore, the ''Standard of Empire" mentions that the sixth Viscount Avonmore, an Irish Peer, died in a Dublin nursing home on September sth last. He married in 1890 the caugher of Mr G. Evans, formerly of ioronto. 'ihe first Lord Avonmore was Mr Barry Yelverton, a distinguished lawyer, orator, and statesman, who in 1782 became At-torney-General of Ireland, and in 1784 Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The iate Lord Avonmore was horn in 1859, when the famous Yelverton inarxiage case was still before the Jaw courts. The fourth viscount married Mrs Forbes in 1858. and in 1861 an Irish jury held that he had previously maried Miss Theresa Longworth, In 1864, however, the House of Lords declared that tha 1858 marriage was the valid one. LorJ Avonmore left a daughter who was born in, 1892, and it wa3 supposed that the peerage would become extinct.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 3
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176VISCOUNT AVONMORE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 3
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