Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile

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Quick Facts

Gender
Male
Birth1 October 1818
Death26 August 1887 (aged 68 years)
Star signLibra
Family
Mother:Lady Charlotte Esther Bernard
Father:Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile
Children:May St. Leger Hayes Warham St. Leger Emily Ursula Clare St. Leger
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Biography

Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile (1 October 1818 – 26 August 1887) was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Doneraile was the son of Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile and Lady Charlotte Esther Bernard. He married Mary Ann Grace Louisa Lenox-Conyngham, the daughter of George Lenox-Conyngham and Elizabeth Holmes, on 20 August 1851. Together they had two daughters and a son, although only his daughter Emily Ursula Clare St Leger survived to adulthood. He sat in the British House of Lords as an Irish representative peer between 1855 and 1887, having succeeded to his father's title in 1854. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant and gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Doneraile was one of the great huntsmen of his day and he kept a pet fox, which became rabid and bit its master. Lord Doneraile contracted rabies and died when he was smothered with pillows by the housemaids to spare him suffering and prevent him spreading the disease to others.

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