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See also:MASSEREENE, See also:JOHN CLOTWORTHY, 1ST See also:VISCOUNT (d. 1665) , Anglo-Irish politician, was a son of See also:Sir See also:Hugh Clotworthy, See also:sheriff of See also:county See also:Antrim. He was elected to the Irish See also:parliament as member for county Antrim in 1634, and was a member both of the See also:Short and of the See also:Long Parliament in See also:England. Clotworthy was a vehement opponent of the See also:earl of See also:Strafford, in whose See also:impeachment he took an active See also:share. He also took See also:part in the See also:prosecution of See also:Archbishop See also:Laud. Having unsuccessfully negotiated with See also:Ormond for the surrender of See also:Dublin to the See also:Parliamentary forces in 1646, he was accused in the following See also:year of having betrayed his cause, and also of See also:embezzlement; in See also:con-sequence of these charges he fled to the See also:Continent, but returned to parliament in See also:June 1648. On the 12th of See also:December in that year he was arrested, and remained in See also:prison for nearly three years. Having taken an active part in forwarding the Restoration, he was employed in See also:Ireland in arranging the affairs of the soldiers and other adventurers who had settled in Ireland. Clotworthy in no way See also:abated his old animosity against " papists " and high Anglicans, and he championed the cause of the Irish Presbyterians; but being personally agreeable to See also:Charles II., his ecclesiastical views were overlooked, and on the 21st of See also:November 166o he was created See also:Baron Loughneagh and Viscount Massereene in the Irish See also:peerage, with See also:remainder in See also:default of male heirs to his son-in-See also:law, Sir John See also:Skeffington. Massereene died without male issue in See also:September 1665, and the See also:title devolved on Skeffington, whose See also:great-See also:grandson, the fifth viscount, was created earl of Massereene in 1756. The earldom became See also:extinct on the See also:death of the See also:fourth earl without male issue in 1816, the viscounty and See also:barony of Loughneagh descending to his daughter Harriet, whose See also:husband, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Foster, took the name of Skeffington, and inherited from his See also:mother in 1824 the titles of Viscount Ferrard and Baron See also:Oriel of Collon in the Irish peerage, and from his See also:father in 1828 that of Baron Oriel of Ferrard in the peerage of the See also:United See also:Kingdom.
End of Article: MASSEREENE, JOHN CLOTWORTHY, 1ST VISCOUNT (d. 1665)
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