About Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet
Lived 1722 – 1790 (aged 68). Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet was a politician.
Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes, 5th Baronet (20 January 1722 – 22 June 1790) was an Irish politician.
He was the oldest son of Sir Walter Borrowes, 4th Baronet and his wife Mary Pottinger, daughter of Captain Edward Pottinger. Borrowes was also elected for Randalstown in 1760, but chose not to sit.
The main Borrowes family seat was at Barretstown Castle near Ballymore Eustace. They also inherited an estate at Calverstown in Kildare from their Dixon cousins (Kildare was the grandson of the Dixon heiress, Elizabeth).
Marriages and children In February 1759, Borrowes married Elizabeth Short, only daughter of John Short. After her death in 1766, he married secondly Jane Higginson, daughter of Joseph Higginson on 10 May 1769. and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Erasmus.
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Irish politician
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Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet was born on 20 January 1722.
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Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Baronet died on 22 June 1790.
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