About Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington
Lived 1822 – 1889 (aged 66). Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington was an Irish politician.
Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington (5 September 1822 – 1 March 1889) was an Irish peer.
Early life Henry was born on 5 September 1822 as the eldest son of Hon. Henry Dawson-Damer, a Captain in the Royal Navy, and the former Eliza Moriarty, who lived at Milton Abbey, Dorset.
He became Earl of Portarlington in 1845 on the death of his uncle John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington and resigned his Yeomanry commission in November 1848. The Earl was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 8 February 1879.
Personal life He married Lady Alexandrina Octavia Maria Vane, second daughter of Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.
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Irish Earl (1822-1889)
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Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington was born on 5 September 1822.
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Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington died on 1 March 1889.
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Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington was a politician.
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Henry Dawson-Damer, 3rd Earl of Portarlington was Irish.
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