William Eure, 4th Baron Eure (c. 1579 – 28 June 1646) was an English nobleman.
Early life
Eure was born around 1579. He was the only son of Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure of Ingleby and Malton and, his first wife, the former Mary Dawnay. After his mother's death in March 1612, his father remarried to Elizabeth (nee Spencer) Carey, Baroness Hundson (widow of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon and the second daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp). At that time, his surname was likely pronounced "Ewry", also given as Evers.[1] His father was a diplomat and politician who served as an MP of the Parliament of England for Yorkshire.[2]
In December 1600 his uncle, Sir William Eure of Bradley, came into Scotland with his servant Clement Armorer. Sir Robert Kerr brought him to meet King James VI and Sir George Home at Spott.[5] William Eure, the uncle, was imprisoned for this visit, suspected of treasonous dealings.[6]
William Eure was created a Knight of the Bath on the eve (24th) of the English coronation of King James I and Queen Anna held at Westminster Abbey on 25 July 1603 that resulted in the Union of the Crowns. He was listed third of sixty-two.[7]
Upon his father's death on 1 April 1617, he succeeded as the 4th Baron Eure.[3]
The family fortunes sank during his tenure that despite selling both Witton and Jarrow, Eure remained so deeply in debt he had to garrison the family estate at Malton in July 1632 and withstand a siege from Sheriff Layton. When Lord Wentworth ordered cannon from Scarborough to breach the walls, "the stout old lord submitted."[8]
Hon. Elizabeth Eure (d. 1654), who married Sir Francis Ireland of Nostell.[11][12][13] With Sir Francis, Elizabeth had four children: William Ireland (b.1625) who married Barbara Eure of Washingborough and his descendants emigrated to America;[11] Ralph Ireland (c.1626-1635); Elizabeth Ireland (b.1628); Marie or Mary Ireland (b.1629 to c.1667) was the "yonge bewtie" and friend of Marmaduke Rawdon[14] and married Thomas Arthur, Esq.[15][16] son of F. Arthur, an officer in the Star Chamber of Charles I of England.[17] Their daughter Philothea was brought up in the household of Mary's cousin Sir Philip Howard.[18] Philothea was the mother of Vincent Perronet.
Lady Eure died and was buried on 20 January 1615/6. Lord Eure died on 28 June 1646 and was succeeded by his grandson William, the only son of his eldest son (who predeceased him).[3]
Descendants
Through his second son William, he was a grandfather of Hon. Margaret Eure (d. 1688), who married Thomas Danby, the first Mayor of Leeds; and Hon. Mary Eure, who married William Palmes, MP for Malton. Both granddaughters were granted, by Royal sign-manual, the style and precedence of the daughter of a Baron,[3] and subsequently inherited much of the remaining Eure family property.[8]
^John Cedric Aveling, Northern Catholics: the Catholic recusants of the North Riding of Yorkshire (London, 1966), p. 121.
^"The Knights of England" by W.A. Shaw Vol.1, p. 153 (1906)
^ ab"The Barons Eure". mountieverscourt.ie. Mount Ievers Court, Sixmilebridge Co.Clare. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
^Collins, Arthur, Collins's peerage of England, Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, greatly augmented and continued to the present time., Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812. p. 419.
^ ab"The Ancestry of John Ireland, Esq., of Crofton Hall, Yorkshire, England, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland," The Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 2, 276–304; Vol. 35, No. 1, 68–95.
^College of Arms (Great Britain) and FOSTER, J., 1875. The Visitation of Yorkshire, Made in the Years 1584/5, by Robert Glover... to which is Added the Subsequent Visitation Made in 1612, by Richard St. George... With Several Additional Pedigrees, Including" The Arms Taken Out of Churches and Houses at Yorkshire Visitation, 1584/5..." Sir William Fayrfax'Booke of Arms," and Other Heraldic Lists, with Copious Indices. Edited by Joseph Foster. Privately printed for the editor.
^Nicholas Assheton 1848 The Journal of Nicholas Assheton, of Downham, in the County of Lancaster, Esq., for Part of the Year 1617, and Part of the Year Following: Interspersed with Notes from the Life of His Contemporary, John Bruen of Bruen Stapelford, in the County of Chester, Chetham society. p. 126
^Davies, Robert, ed. The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York: Or, Marmaduke Rawdon the Second of that Name. No. 85. Camden society, 1863 p.78
^Davies, Robert, ed. The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York: Or, Marmaduke Rawdon the Second of that Name. No. 85. Camden Society, 1863.
^Hunter, Joseph. South Yorkshire. The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster, in the Diocese and County of York. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, Fellow of the Societies of Antiquaries of London and Newcastle, and an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Association. author, 1831.vol. ii, p. 215
^Batty, Margaret. Vincent Perronet, 1693-1785: The Archbishop of the Methodists. WMHS Publications, 2002.
