Hugh Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim

Hugh Seymour McDonnell, 4th Earl of Antrim ( Kerr; 7 August 1812 – 19 July 1855), styled Viscount Dunluce from 1834 to 1845, was an Anglo-Irish peer of Irish and Scottish descent.

Early life

Born Hugh Seymour Kerr on 7 August 1812 at Portman Square in London, he was the sixth, but eldest surviving, son of Vice-Admiral Lord Mark Kerr and Charlotte Kerr, 3rd Countess of Antrim.

Among his many siblings were Lady Georgina Anne Emily Kerr (who married the Rev. Hon. Frederic Bertie, son of the 4th Earl of Abingdon), Lady Caroline Mary Kerr (who married the Rev. Horace Robert Pechell, parents of Adm. Mark Robert Pechell), Lady Charlotte Kerr (who married Sir George Osborn, 6th Baronet), Lady Emily Frances Kerr (who married Henry Richardson and Sir Steuart Macnaghten, son of Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 1st Baronet), Lady Letitia Louise Kerr (who married Cortlandt MacGregor Skinner), Charles Fortescue Kerr, styled Viscount Dunluce, Capt. Mark McDonnell (who married Jane Emma Hannah Macan, daughter of Maj. Turner Macan), and Lady Frederica Augusta Kerr (who married Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon).

Personal life

On 3 May 1836 at St George's, Hanover Square, he married Lady Laura Cecilia Parker (1809–1883), daughter of Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield, and his second wife, Eliza Wolstenholme (the daughter of William Breton Wolstenholme). Together, they were the parents of:

Lady Helen Laura McDonnell (1837–1922), who married Sir Malcolm Murray-MacGregor, 4th Baronet, son of Sir John Murray-Macgregor, 3rd Baronet, and the former Mary Charlotte Hardy (youngest daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet), in 1864. His widow, the dowager Countess of Antrim, died at Beaufort Gardens, South Kensington, London, on 26 January 1883.