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Authorised form of nameCaulfeild; James (1728 - 1799); 1st Earl of Charlemont
Other forms of nameCaulfeild, James, 4th Viscount Charlemont
Dates1728 - 1799
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth18 August 1728
Place of deathThe family vault in Armagh Cathedral
Date of death04 August 1799
ActivityCareer:
Lived abroad; returned to Ireland and took his seat in the House of Lords (1754); Privy Councillor
Freemason, joined, 13 January 1756, Antient Lodge No 14 at Crown, Crown Court, Fleet Street, London
Honours:
Earl 1763; KP 1783 (nominated one of the first fifteen KP's, invested 11 March 1783)
Memberships:
FSA (1755); MRIA (President from its establishment, 1785, to his death)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election29/05/1755
RelationshipsSucceeded his father as 4th Viscount Charlemont (1734)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, ;Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' (2010) page 18
CodeNA2462
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