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Family and Education
b. 19 May 1812, 1stAlthough Adare’s entries in the ODNB and the Dictionary of Irish Biography list him as the only son of the second earl, he had a younger brother, the Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, who married the daughter of Admiral Sir George Tyler (Adare’s successor as MP for Glamorgan) in 1856. s. of Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2nd earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl [I], and Caroline, da. and h. of Thomas Wyndham, of Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan. educ. Eton 1826-9; Trinity Coll., Dublin, adm. 17 Nov. 1831; BA 1833. m. (1) 18 Aug. 1836, Augusta Charlotte (d. 22 Nov. 1866), 3rd da. of Thomas Goold, of Merrion Square, Dublin, master in chancery [I], 1s. 5da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 27 Jan. 1870, Anne, da. of Henry Lambert, of Carnagh, co. Wexford (MP County Wexford 1831-5), s.p. styled visct. Adare, 1824-50. suc. fa. as 3rd earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl [I] 6 Aug. 1850. cr. Bar. Kenry 12 June 1866. d. 6 Oct. 1871.
Offices Held

KP 13 Mar. 1866.

Commr. national education [I], 1861 – d.

High sheriff co. Limerick 1834; Dep. Lt. Glamorgan 1836; Lord Lieut. co. Limerick 1864 – d. custos. rot. co. Limerick.

Col. Limerick militia.

Life member Royal Irish Academy 1830; Fell. Royal Archaeological Society 1831; BA Cambridge (ad eundem) 1833; F.R.S. 1834; F.S.A. 1836; Fell. Royal Geographical Society 1837; founder member Irish Archaeological Society 1840; vice-president British Association for the Advancement of Science 1842; founder member Celtic Society 1845; member Dublin Statistical Society 1850; life member Royal Zoological Society of Ireland 1854; Fell. Royal Horticultural Society 1861; member Royal Institution of South Wales; president Cambrian Archaeological Association 1849, 1862, 1869; vice-president Royal Irish Art Union; vice-president Philosophical Society of Limerick; vice-president Society for the Preservation of the Melodies of Ireland; vice-president Dublin Shakespeare Club; vice-president Society of Ancient Concerts [I].

Parlimentarian
WYNDHAM-QUIN, Edwin Richard Windham, visct. Adare (1812-1871), of Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan and 76 Eaton Square, London
Main residences: Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan; 76 Eaton Square, London.
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K.S.R.
Volume
Commons 1832-1868
Clubs
Athenaeum
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion