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Bartholomew Van Homrigh

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and served as commissar-general for his armies; he continued logistical work for the King until 1692. Van Homrigh was remade an alderman in 1691 and served as revenue commissioner from 1690-1702 and from 1697-98 the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Whilst Lord Mayor Van Homrigh erected the historic
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between 1 November 1693 and 1 May 1695, owing to competent estate management; in a letter from either 1691 or 1692, the combined value of both estates was said to be over £4,000 per annum. For this, he asked to be rented in perpetuity about 326 acres of land in
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His efforts were assiduous: Ginkel was urged to be naturalised, as he could not otherwise own property in Ireland, and Van Homrigh oversaw legal efforts to have Ginkel's possessions confirmed by the
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would prevent the ultimately successful Act of Resumption (1700) from passage, Ginkel pre-emptively sold his properties for over £7,000, of which two-thirds had to be returned by the Act's terms.
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Van Homrigh married Hester Stone (d. 1714) in December 1686, and had either three or four children. The eldest daughter, Esther, was the longtime lover of Swift, immortalised in his work
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began investigating the King's granting of Irish forfeitures. Though Van Homrigh hoped steadfast opposition by the
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The Celbridge Rock Bridge in the grounds of the Celbridge Abbey, purportedly the oldest extant bridge to cross the
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56 letters of correspondence between Van Homrigh and Ginkel survive in the private archive of
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Londonderry constituencies
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to the lieutenant-general and commander-in-chief of his forces in Ireland, the
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Van Homrigh organised forces for William III of England's invasion of
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merchant, estate agent and politician who served as the 33rd
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by 1687, but was later stricken from the record by Dublin
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On 29 February 1692, William III bestowed the estates of
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when the latter was accused of corruption and favouring
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commander Godert de Ginkel, whose victory at the 1691
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River Liffey
Polish
Irish
Lord Mayor of Dublin
Londonderry City
William III
Irish Parliaments
Godert de Ginkel, the 1st Earl of Athlone
Williamite War in Ireland
Gdańsk
Dublin
Amsterdam
Dutch
Freedom of the City
Protestant
Dublin Corporation
Jacobites
Chester
Glorious Revolution
Sir William Robinson
Ireland
Celbridge Abbey
County Kildare
Esther Vanhomrigh
Jonathan Swift
mayoral chain
Londonderry
Tory
Lord Chancellor

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