Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench
Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench (died 8 December 1805), was an Irish peeress.
The eldest daughter of Patrick Dillon of Roscommon, she married on 25 June 1761 Sir Charles ffrench, 1st Baronet (cr.1779), who was later Mayor of Galway. He died in 1784.
In 1798, Lady ffrench was created Baroness ffrench, of Castle ffrench, County Galway, in recognition of the services of her son, Sir Thomas ffrench, 2nd Bt., who was a member of the Catholic Committee. Because she was nominally Protestant, the creation was in keeping with King George III's objection to elevating Catholics to the peerage. Upon her decease, her Catholic son inherited the barony.
The title and the family name are both spelled with a lower-case double-'f'.
References[]
- Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 107th edition
Categories:
- 1805 deaths
- Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
- Peers of Ireland created by George III
- Created suo jure peeresses
- People from County Roscommon
- People from County Galway
- 19th-century Irish women
- 18th-century Irish people
- 19th-century Irish people
- 18th-century Irish women