Sir Henry Hartstonge, 3rd Baronet
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Sir Henry Hartstonge, 3rd Baronet (c. 1725 – 1797) was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner who sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for County Limerick. He was a close political associate of his influential brother-in-law Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery. He gave his name to Hartstonge Street, Limerick.
He was born at Bruff, County Limerick, only son of Price Hartstonge, MP for Charleville, and Alice Widenham, daughter and co-heiress of Henry Widenham of Kildimo.[1] Price was the eldest surviving son of Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet, but he died before his father, so Henry inherited the title on his grandfather's death in 1751.[2] The Hartstonges, who were originally from Norfolk, inherited Bruff from the Standish family in the middle of the seventeenth century.[3] Thereafter they lived mainly in Ireland, and over the course of the next century they became substantial landowners in counties Limerick, Cork and Tipperary. Henry was educated at Trinity College Dublin of which he was later a benefactor.
Marriage and career
Henry married Lucy Pery, daughter of the Rev. Stackpole Pery and Jane Twigge, and sister of Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery and of William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth. Viscount Pery, who was Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 1771–1785, was one of the most influential politicians in Ireland of his day and Henry was always closely associated with the Pery interest. He sat in the House of Commons as an MP for Limerick County 1776–1790.[4]