Col. William Mervyn IRVINE M.P.

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The Irvines and their kin. A history of the Irvine family and their descendants (1898)
Col. William Irvine, of Castle Irvine, born July 15, 1734; member for
Ratoath in the Irish House of Commons, was High Sheriff County Ferma-
nagh 1758 and of Tyrone 1768. He married, first, December 10, 1755, Hon.
Flora Caroline Cole, daughter of John, first Lord Mount Florence; she died
October 20, 1757, leaving a son, Christopher, died young. He married,
second, February 23, 1760, Sophia, daughter of Gorges Lowther, Esq., of
Kilrue, County Meath (by Judith his wife, daughter of John Usher and Mary
his wife, only daughter of George, first Lord St. George), and had eight sons
and eight daughters :

William married Sophia LOWTHER, daughter of George LOWTHER MP and Judith USSHER, on 23 Feb 1760. (Sophia LOWTHER was born in 1740 in County Meath, Ireland ¹.)

William next married Hon. Florence Carolyn COLE on 10 Dec 1755. (Hon. Florence Carolyn COLE died on 20 Oct 1757.)