Henry Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore

Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore (24 August 1792 – 1 December 1860), was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament and hereditary peer, from 1843 to 1852 Lord Lieutenant of Monaghan.

Life The eldest son of Warner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore (1765–1842), by his first marriage to Mary Ann Walsh, Henry Robert Westenra was born on 24 August 1792 at his mother's family seat, Walsh Park in County Tipperary. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he matriculated on 4 July 1810. His portrait was painted the same year by John Ferneley (1782–1860), showing him with his dogs and carrying a shotgun.

He was also an accomplished player of the Irish pipes, and was considered to be the equal of a good professional piper. In Twenty Years Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate (1880), Frank Thorpe Porter recalled an evening when Rossmore quote|... played several pieces of exquisitely sweet music, interspersed with the most extraordinary imitations. In one, which was named The hare in the Corn, he produced sounds very much resembling the cry of the harriers, and other tones like the notes of a hunting horn, terminating with two or three simulated squeaks, supposed to indicate the capture of the hare. married Innys Maud Eaglesfield Daubeny, daughter of Lansdowne Daubeny, on 30 April 1895. They had two daughters.

According to Rossmore's second son, the fifth baron, "My father's favourite amusements were yachting, shooting and fishing, and, oddly enough, playing the bagpipes, at which he excelled." He also reported that Rossmore had suffered from a very bad stammer.