Through this marriage the Gill Hall estate in Dromore in County Down came into the Meade family.

Robert Meade, second son of the first Earl, had reached the rank of lieutenant general in the army by 1814 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars.

Sir Robert Henry Meade, second son of the third Earl, was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1892 to 1897.

Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, third son of the fourth Earl, was an admiral in the Royal Navy.

Christoph Cardinal Graf von Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, descends from The 2nd Earl of Clanwilliam.

The family seat Is Meade Mews, in London, but during the tenure of the 6th Earl was at Montalto Estate, near Ballynahinch, County Down.

As of 2023[update] the heir apparent is the 8th earl's son, John Onion Maximilian Meade, Lord Gillford (born 1998).