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O’Grady, Standish Darby, 1792-1848
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1792-1848
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O’GRADY, STANDISH DARBY, 2ND VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE (I), eldest son of Standish O’Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore (I) PC (I), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (I), and Katherine, second dau. of John Thomas Waller, Castletown, co. Limerick; b. 26 Dec 1792; adm.; left 1809; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 4 Jul 1809; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 21 Mar 1811; Lieut., 6 Aug 1812; Capt., 20 Jul 1815; half-pay 25 May 1816; 18th Light Dragoons 22 Jul 1819; half-pay 10 Nov 1821; Maj., unattached, half-pay 29 Oct 1825; 24th Foot 1 Feb 1827; Lieut. -Col., unattached, half-pay 14 Apr 1829; Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 29 Jul 1842; commanded troop of 7th Light Dragoons in skirmish with French Lancers at Genappe 17 Jun 1815, and served at battle of Waterloo the following day; MP Co. Limerick 1820-6, 1830-4; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Guillamore (I) 21 Apr 1840; m. 16 Oct 1828 Gertrude Jane, eldest dau. of Hon. Berkeley Thomas Paget MP, and niece of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv); d. 22 Jul 1848. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.