Luke White

Luke White (circa 1740 or 1750 – 25 February 1824) first in the streets of Belfast, then from 1778 at an auction house in Dublin buying and reselling around the country.

He then purchased Luttrellstown Castle from Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton in 1800, and changed its name to Woodlands to eradicate the memory of its previous owner. White was High Sheriff of County Dublin for 1804 and High Sheriff of Longford for 1806. He entered the British House of Commons for Leitrim in 1818 and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for it until his death in 1824.

On 7 February 1781, he married Elizabeth de la Mazière, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. He later married secondly, in 1800, Arabella Fortescue, daughter of William Fortescue, He left properties worth £175,000 per annum which eventually devolved to his fourth son Henry, His second son Samuel represented the same constituency as his father and his third son, Luke White Jr., was MP for Longford.

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