Young baronets of Bailieborough Castle (1821)

The Young baronetcy, of Bailieborough Castle in the County of Cavan,^[1] was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 August 1821 for Lieutenant-Colonel William Young. From Loughgall in the north of County Armagh, he was a Director of the East India Company.^[2] The 2nd Baronet served as Governor General of Canada from 1869 to 1872 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Lisgar, of Lisgar and Bailieborough in the County of Cavan, in 1870. The peerage became extinct on Lord Lisgar's death in 1876; while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, the 3rd Baronet.