Earl Castle Stewart, in the County Tyrone, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Andrew Thomas Stewart (1725-1809) of Stuart Hall, County Tyrone who had restored an old family title becoming the rightful 9th Baron Castle Stewart in 1774, before being created 1st Viscount Castle Stuart in 1793.
Read more about Earl Castle Stewart: Royal Descent, Lords of Avandale and Ochiltree, Barons of Castle Stewart, Dormancy of The Barons of Castle Stewart (1686), Restoration of The Barons of Castle Stewart (1774), Earls of Castle Stewart, Further Notes, Lords Avandale (c. 1499), Lords Stuart of Ochiltree (1542), Barons Castle Stewart (1619), Earls Castle Stewart (1800)
Famous quotes containing the words earl, castle and/or stewart:
“Merit at Courts, without favour, will do little or nothing; favour, without merit, will do a good deal; but favour and merit together will do everything.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“But you must know the class of sweet women—who are always so happy to declare “they have all the rights they want”; “they are perfectly willing to let their husbands vote for them”Mare and always have been numerous, though it is an occasion for thankfulness that they are becoming less so.”
—Eliza “Mother” Stewart (1816–1908)