Name James 4th | Died November 20, 1887 | |
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James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford, DL (31 March 1811 – 20 November 1887), of Meenglas, County Donegal, was Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Donegal.
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Early life and family
He was born on 31 March 1811 at Merrion Square, Dublin, as the son of James Hewitt, 3rd Viscount Lifford and the Hon. Mary Ann Maude.
He married Lady Mary Acheson, daughter of Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford and Mary Sparrow, on 9 July 1835. The children from this marriage were:
Lady Mary died in March 1850.
Secondly, he married Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby, daughter of the Reverend John Digby Wingfield Digby, on 9 December 1851. There was one child from this marriage:
Career
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. His estates comprised 11,000 acres at Meenglas, Ballybofey. He was Deputy Lieutenant of County Donegal, and he was High Sheriff of Donegal from 1841 to 1845.
He was Chairman of the Finn Valley Railway around 1860. He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1856 to 1887, sitting on the Conservative benches.
He died on 20 November 1887. He is buried in St Anne's Church of Ireland, Monnellan, Crossroads, Killygordon.