Francis Needham, Viscount Newry

Francis Jack Needham, Viscount Newry (2 February 1815 – 6 May 1851), was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament.

Newry, who was born in Boulogne, France, and baptised at Sidmouth, Devon,[1] was the eldest son of Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey, and Jane Gun-Cuninghame, and was educated at Eton College.

[1] He gained the courtesy title of Viscount Newry when his father succeeded as Earl of Kilmorey in 1832.

Lord Newry married, at Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1839 Anne Amelia Colville, daughter of General the Hon.

He died at his home in Grosvenor Crescent, Belgravia, London, in May 1851, aged 36, predeceasing his father, and was buried at Adderley, Shropshire.