The title of Earl of Limerick was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1803, and previously in 1686. The earlier title became extinct in 1715, but the later one is still extant.
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Limerick (1800) and Baron Glentworth (1790) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Foxford (1815) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Until 1999, he sat in the House of Lords as Baron Foxford.
William Cecil Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth (1721-1794), Bishop of Limerick 1784-1794
Edmund Henry Pery, 2nd Baron Glentworth (1758-1844), elected a Representative Peer in 1800, created Viscount Limerick later that year, later created Earl of Limerick (below)
LIMERICK, a western county of Ireland, in the province of Munster, bounded N. by the estuary of the Shannon and the counties of Clare and Tipperary, E. by Tipperary, S. by Cork and W. by Kerry.
Limerick includes the greater part of the Golden Vale, the most fertile district of Ireland, which stretches from Cashel in Tipperary nearly to the town of Limerick.
Assizes are held at Limerick, and quarter-sessions at Bruff, Limerick, Newcastle and Rathkeale.
Earl of Limerick is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.
Lord Limerick sat in the House of Lords as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers from 1800 to 1844.
His great-grandson, the third Earl, was a Conservative politician and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1889 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1896.
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