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INCHIQUIN, MURROUGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INCHIQUIN, MURROUGH O'BRIEN, 1ST See also:EARL OF (c. 1614-1674), Irish soldier and statesman, was the son of Dermod O'Brien, 5th See also:Baron Inchiquin (d. 1624). He belonged to a See also:great See also:family which traced its descent to See also:Brian Boroimhe, See also:king of See also:Ireland, and members of which were always to the forefront in Irish public See also:life. The first'baron of Inchiquin was another Murrough O'Brien (d. 1551) who, after having made his submission to See also:Henry VIII., was created baron of Inchiquin and earl of See also:Thomond in 1J43. When I\4urrough died in See also:November 1551 by a curious arrangement his earldom passed to his See also:nephew Donogh, son of Conor O'Brien (d. 1539), the last See also:independent See also:prince of Thomond (see THOMOND, EARLS OF), leaving only his See also:barony to be inherited by his son Dermod (d. 1557), the ancestor of the later barons of Inchiquin. Murrough O'Brien, who became 6th baron of Inchiquin in 1624, gained some military experience in See also:Italy, and then in 164o was appointed See also:vice-See also:president of See also:Munster. He took an active and leading See also:part in suppressing the great Irish See also:rebellion which See also:broke out in the following See also:year, and during the See also:Civil See also:War the See also:English See also:parliament made him president of Munster. See also:Early in 1648, however, he declared for his former See also:master See also:Charles I., and for about two years he sought to uphold the royalist cause in Ireland.

In 1654 Charles II. made him an earl. His later years were partly spent in See also:

France and in See also:Spain, but he had returned to Ireland when he died on the 9th of See also:September 1674. His son See also:William, the 2nd earl (c. 1638–1692), served under his See also:father in France and Spain, and for six years was See also:governor of See also:Tangier. He was a See also:partisan of William III. in Ireland, and in 16go he became governor of See also:Jamaica where he died in See also:January 1692. In 1800 his descendant Murrough, the 5th earl (d. 18o8), was created See also:marquess of Thomond, but on the See also:death of See also:James, the 3rd marquess, in See also:July 1855 both the marquessate and the earldom became See also:extinct. The barony of Inchiquin, however, passed to a kinsman, See also:Sir See also:Lucius O'Brien, See also:Bart. (1800-1872), a descendant of the first baron and a See also:brother of William See also:Smith O'Brien (q.v.).

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