Robert McCarthy

Life
?-1726 [Viscount Muskerry, tit. Earl of Clancarty]; son of Donough, 4th Earl; joined navy; appt. gov. of Newfoundland, 1733-35; unsuccessfully attempted to regain family estated, forfeited of his father; left navy; went to France and devoted himself to Stuart cause; excluded from Act of Indemnity, 1747; d. Boulogne. ODNB

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