John Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew of Duleek

As a child he was sent to France for his safety during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, but he returned to Ireland in 1648 in the retinue of the Marquess of Ormonde, who gave him command of a troop of horse in the Royalist army.

A Roman Catholic, he was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1685 and on 29 October 1686 he was created Baron Bellew of Duleek by James II of England.

[3] Bellew attended the Irish House of Lords during James II's short-lived Patriot Parliament in 1689.

[4] He raised a regiment of infantry for the Jacobite army during the Williamite War in Ireland.

He fought at the Battle of Aughrim in July 1691, at which he was severely wounded and taken prisoner.