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Viscount Ashbrook
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Name: Viscountcy Ashbrook
Creation Date: 30 September 1751
Monarch: King George II
Peerage: Peerage of Ireland
First Holder: Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow
Present Holder: Michael Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook
Heir Apparent: Hon. Rowland Flower
Remainder To: Heirs male of the first viscount's body, lawfully begotten
Subsidiary Titles: Baron Castle Durrow
Family Seat: Arley Hall
Former Seat: Castle Durrow Beaumont Lodge Shellingford Manor
Motto: Nens Conscia Recti ("A mind conscious of rectitude")
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Viscount Ashbrook is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1751 for Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow. The title of Baron Castle Durrow, in the County of Kilkenny, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1733 for his father William Flower. He was a Colonel in the Army and also represented County Kilkenny and Portarlington in the Irish House of Commons. He was praised by Jonathan Swift as "a gentleman of very great sense and wit". , the titles are held by the eleventh Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1995. The family seat is Arley Hall, near Arley, Cheshire. Until 1922, the principal seat of the family was Castle Durrow, near Durrow, County Kilkenny; in England they also owned Beaumont Lodge, near Old Windsor, Berkshire, and the manor of Shellingford in Shellingford, Berkshire (presently Oxfordshire).
Barons Castle Durrow (1733)
Viscounts Ashbrook (1751)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. Rowland Francis Warburton Flower (b. 1975) The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Benjamin Warburton Flower (b. 2006).
Ancestry
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