Viscount Clare was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created twice.
Read more about Viscount Clare: First Creation, Second Creation, Viscounts Clare (1662), Viscount Clare (1767)
Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or clare:
“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)
“In the cowslips peeps I lie,
Hidden from the buzzing fly,
While green grass beneath me lies,
Pearled wi’ dew like fishes’ eyes,
Here I lye, a clock-a-clay,
Waiting for the time o’ day.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)