Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (30 July 1752 – 24 August 1824), styled Sir Valentine Quin, Bt. from 1781 to 1800, was an Irish peer and politician.[1]
He was the son of Windham Quin, Esq. of Adare, and Frances Dawson, daughter of Richard Dawson, of Dawon's Grove, County Monaghan. His grandfather had added to the family's wealth and estates by marriage to the heiress Mary Widenham of Kildimo.
He was created a Baronet in 1781. He was elected in 1799 as Member of Parliament for his father's old seat Kilmallock to the Irish House of Commons, sitting until the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1800/01.
He was created Baron Adare on 31 July 1800 – as a staunch supporter of the political union, he was recommended by Lord Cornwallis [2] – Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816, and Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl on 5 February 1822, all titles in the Peerage of Ireland. He presumably chose the title of Dunraven in honour of his daughter-in-law, the heiress Caroline Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, who had married his eldest son in 1810. His earldom lasted only two years until his death in 1824, when his son, Windham Henry Quin, became the 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl. The family name had officially become Wyndham-Quin in 1815.[3]
- ^ Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1831. p. 816.
- ^ Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Debrett, John (1820). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. p. 1172. Retrieved 27 September 2016.