Earl of Bessborough is a peerage title in the Peerage of Ireland. Other titles held by the Earl include: Viscount Duncannon (created 1723, Peerage of Ireland), Baron Bessborough (1721, Peerage of Ireland), Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby (1749, Peerage of Great Britain) and Baron Duncannon (1834, Peerage of the United Kingdom).
This parish comprises 1359 statute acres, and is the property of A. Annesley, Esq., of Blechingdon Park, in the county of Oxford.
Clogrennan was formerly an estate of the Dukes of Ormonde, and gave the title of baron in the Irish peerage to the Earls of Arran.
About 1769, the late Chief Baron Foster gave a glebe of ten acres, and built the glebe-house, on condition that an augmentation of £50 should be granted from Primate Boulter's fund, and that he should have the patronage of the endowed vicarage two turns out of three.
Horace Walpole said he was of a creeping, underhand nature, and aspired to the lion's place by the manoeuvre of the mole, but afterwards he spoke in high terms of his talents.
Legge married Mary Stawell, daughter and heiress of the 4th Baron Stawell (d.
This lady, who in 1760 was created Baroness Stawell, bore him an only child, Henry Stawel Bilson-Legge (1757–1820), who became Baron Stawell on his mother's death in 1780.
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