About Walter Borrowes
Lived 1691 – 1741 (aged 49–50). Walter Borrowes was a politician.
Sir Walter Dixon Borrowes, 4th Baronet (1691 – 9 June 1741) was an Irish politician.
He was the eldest son of Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Dixon, daughter of Sir Richard Dixon and his wife Mary Eustace of Calverstown. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1709, he succeeded his father as baronet. Borrowes represented Harristown in the Irish House of Commons between 1721 and 1727. and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Bt.
The family's surname is sometimes spelt Burrowes.
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