Baron Cloncurry

It was created on 29 December 1789 for Sir Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baronet, who had earlier represented Lifford in the Irish House of Commons.

He had already been created a Baronet, of Abington in the County of Limerick, in the Baronetage of Ireland on 6 August 1776.

He had divorced his first wife, Elizabeth Georgiana Morgan, in 1811 after a particularly scandalous lawsuit, on the ground of her adultery with Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet.

The 3rd Baron committed suicide in 1869 by jumping from the third floor of his house, Lyons Place.

[1] The titles descended from father to son until the death of the fourth Baron, in 1928.