George St George
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Sir George St George of Dunmore (born by 1640, died December 1713) was an Irish Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

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He represented Carrick
Carrick (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Carrick was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1800. It returned two members.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:...

 in the Irish House of Commons
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords...

 from September 1703 to his death, sitting alongside his nephew Oliver St George
Oliver St George
Oliver St George was an Irish politician.The son of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Knox, in 1701....

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He was the younger son of Sir George St George of Carrickdrumrusk, brother of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet
Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet
Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet was an Irish Member of Parliament.The son of Sir George St George, of Carrickdrumrusk, and grandson of Richard St George, Clarenceux King of Arms, he was created a Baronet, of Carrickdrumrusk in the county of Leitrim, on 5 September 1660 in the Baronetage of England...

 and grandson of Richard St George
Richard St George
Sir Richard St George was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms on London during the seventeenth century.The date of birth of Richard St George is unknown. In 1575 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire. He joined the College of Arms in 1602...

, Clarenceux King of Arms. On 18 December 1666 he was granted over 8000 acres (32.4 km²) in the baronies
Barony (Ireland)
In Ireland, a barony is a historical subdivision of a county. They were created, like the counties, in the centuries after the Norman invasion, and were analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. In early use they were also called cantreds...

 of Dunmore, Ballymoe
Ballymoe
Ballymoe is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Ballymoe is situated on the western side of the River Suck that separates counties Galway and Roscommon...

 and Tiaquin, County Galway
County Galway
County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...

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He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Hannay, 2nd Baronet, and died in October 1711, having had issue:
  • Richard
    Richard St George (died 1726)
    Sir Richard St George was an Irish landowner.He was the only surviving son of Sir George St George of Dunmore, and first cousin of George St George, 1st Baron St George....

    , who married Anne Eyre and died without issue in 1726
  • George, died unmarried
  • Jane, who married the Rt Rev. St George Ashe
    St George Ashe
    St. George Ashe , D.D., a Church of Ireland cleric who served successively as Bishop of Cloyne, Clogher and Derry in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.Ashe was born in County Roscommon in 1658...

    , and had issue
    • St George Ashe, died in January 1721
    • Elizabeth, wife of Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet
      Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet
      Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet was a Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.The Gore Baronetcy, of Magherabegg in the County of Donegal, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 2 February 1622 for Paul Gore .The fourth Baronet served as Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer and as Speaker...

       and eventual sole heiress of her grandfather Sir George St George.
  • Catherine, who married the Rt Rev. Charles Crowe and had issue
    • Sackville Crowe, died unmarried
  • Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet, died without issue in February 1739
  • Lettice
  • Emilia, wife of the Very Rev. Robert Carleton, died without issue.
  • Eleanor (died 1713), who married Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet
    Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet
    Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet was an Irish soldier and politician.Gore was the second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet and his wife Isabella Wycliffe, daughter of Francis Wycliffe. In 1656, he was High Sheriff of Mayo and additionally High Sheriff of County Galway...

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