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- 1890-1895 (Creation)
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Edward Donough O’Brien was born on 14 May 1839 as the eldest son of Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin of Dromoland by his first wife, Mary née Fitzgerald. He was educated at Cambridge and succeeded his father as 14th Baron Inchiquin in 1872. He served as Representative Peer of Ireland between 1873 and 1900 and held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of county Clare between 1879 and 1900. In 1862 he married the Hon. Emily Holmes à Court as his first wife and by her had four children: Geraldine Mary (1863-1951), Lucius William (1864-1929), Murrough (1866-1934) and Edward Donough (1867-1943). His first wife died in 1868, and six years later he married as his second wife the Hon. Ellen Harriet White (1854-1913). By his second wife, he had another ten children: Clare (1875-1950); Moira (1876-1957), Eileen (1877-1867), Maud (1878-1956), Donough (1879-1953); Beatrice (1882-1976), Lilah (1884-1968), Henry Barnaby (1887-1969), Doreen (1888-1960) and Desmond (1895-1915). Edward Donough O’Brien died on 9 April 1900 and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Lucius William O’Brien, as 15th Baron Inchiquin.
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Glass plate negative (215 x 165 mm) depicting four men posing outside the thatched rustic summer house on the grounds of Dromoland Castle. The man on the far left is formally clad in a three-piece suit. The second man is seated on a chair in plus fours, tweed jacket and flat cap resting a shotgun between his legs and with a gun dog by his side. The third man is standing and similarly attired, his hands wrapped around the barrel of a shotgun with its butt resting on the ground. The fourth man, on the far right, is younger than the other three and roughly dressed, possibly a beater or a picker-up, with a white ferret dangling from his right hand. On the foreground are three large dead rabbits.