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<div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clements family"><B>Clements family</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clements family tree">Clements family tree</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel Clements">Daniel Clements</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nathaniel Clements 17051777">Nathaniel Clements</A></div> <div> Rynn in the 1700s</div> <div> <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim 173">Robert Clements, </A><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim 173">1</A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim 173">st</A></FONT><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim 173"> Earl of Leitrim 1732-1804</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim ">Nathaniel Clements, 2</A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim ">nd</A></FONT><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim "> Earl of Leitrim 1768-1854</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Bermingham, Viscount Clements 180">Robert Bermingham, Viscount Clements 1805-1839</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lord Leitrim"><B>William Sydney Clements, 3</B></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Trebuchet MS" ><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lord Leitrim"><B>rd</B></A></FONT><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lord Leitrim"><B> Earl of Leitrim (Lord Leitrim)</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After Lord Leitrim"><B>After Lord Leitrim</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Clements family</div> <div> The Clements family in Ireland has its origins in the Cromwellian campaigns in the mid-1600s, when Daniel Clements was granted lands in County Cavan.</div> <div> The association with Lough Rynn began in 1750, when Nathaniel Clements acquired about 10,000 acres in the Mohill area, though no Clements settled on the estate until 1832.</div> <div> Click here for a <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clements family tree">Clements family tree >>></A></div> <div> <B>Before the 3rd Earl</B></div> <div> Read about <A HREF="id18_the_arrival_of_the_clements_family.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel Clements">Daniel Clements</A> (and his links with Massachusetts)<A HREF="id18_the_arrival_of_the_clements_family.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel Clements"> by clicking here >>></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nathaniel Clements 17051777">Nathaniel Clements</A> epitomised the young, ambitious Ascendancy classes of the 18th century: he was a distinguished amateur architect and successful financier.</div> <div> Read how the Clements acquired an Earldom the plus an account of the <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim 173">1st Earl of Leitrim</A><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim 173">.</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim ">Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim</A> was an active parliamentarian and liberal activist - and a devoted family man.</div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Bermingham, Viscount Clements 180">Robert Bermingham Clements</A>, Viscount Clements, was the first to settle at Lough Rynn. He was a man of considerable intellect and ability.</div> <div> The <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lord Leitrim">3rd Earl of Leitrim, Lord Leitrim</A> managed the estates for 40 years until his assassination in 1878. In his early days, he was a radical reformist who gained recognition for his ideas and implementation of agrarian and social reforms. In his later years, he gained notoriety as a tyrannical, despotic landlord who is best remembered for his pitiless and indiscriminate evicition of tenants.</div> <div> <B>After the 3rd Earl</B></div> <div> The 3rd Earl never married. After his death, his estates were divided between his nephew <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After Lord Leitrim">Robert Clements</A> (who also inherited the title) and a second cousin, <A HREF="id42_colonel_henry_theophilus_clements.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After Lord Leitrim">Colonel Henry Theophilus Clements</A><A HREF="id42_colonel_henry_theophilus_clements.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After Lord Leitrim"> </A>who took on the Lough Rynn estate.</div> <div> The title died out after the demise of the <A HREF="id42_5th_earl_of_leitrim.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="After Lord Leitrim">5th Earl of Leitrim</A>.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>