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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10515, 7 August 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)

The appointment of Lord Rossmore to be Lord-Lieutenant'of the county of Monaghan in the room of the late Earl of Dartrey reminds the Daily Telegraph that hie lordihip's family has btea connected with the country for at least two centuries. The WestentM originally emigrated from Holland. In their native land they were permitted to emblazon on their escutcheon • seahorse, in recognition of the valour of an ancestor who, during the campaign , ' carried on to brutally against the Low Countries by the Duke of Alva, swam across d en arm of the sea with important intelligence to bis countrymen. In the time of V Charles 11. a branch of the family settled in :c\ Ireland, and took a very active share in public life, several of them becoming members of the Irish Parliament. As the fret Lord Rossmone in the peerage of Ireland died Jieirless, the title and the . estates pan** to Warner William Western*, whose father was lIP. 'for Mooaghan , about 1754, and had married into the first karoo , family. This gentleman received <in addition to his Irish honours a peerage of the United Kingdom; ■ and his successors have always taken great interest in the prosperity of the country', , . The present Lord Rossmone is honorary Colonel of the: sth ' Battalion, Royal Irish '■•■ Funlwrs, and was for "some; time a ■ iLieatc'DMitiQtbi litLtftGutrdt, /; ~•/;