Baron de Blaquiere

Baron de Blaquiere, of Ardkill in the County of Londonderry, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

[1] It was created on 30 July 1800 for the politician Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Baronet, Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1772 and 1777.

He had already been created a Baronet, of Ardkill in the County of Londonderry, in the Baronetage of Ireland on 16 July 1784.

[2] He was the son of Jean de Blaquiere, a merchant who emigrated to England from France in 1685.

Lord de Blaquiere's two sons, John & Alan Boyle were both killed in the First World War and on his death in 1920 the titles became extinct; leaving his widow Lucinne Henriette Adine, the baroness and her daughter Kathleen b.1891 who in 1911 married Hon.