Earl of Bandon
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Earl of Bandon was a title created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1800 for the 1st Viscount Bandon, which became extinct on the death of the 5th Earl in 1979.
The Earls of Bandon bore the subsidiary titles Viscount Bandon, of Bandon Bridge in the County of Cork (1795), Viscount Bernard (1800), and Baron Bandon, of Bandon Bridge in the County of Cork (1793), all in the Peerage of Ireland.
The family seat of the Earls of Bandon was Castle Bernard, Co Cork, in the Republic of Ireland. Castle Bernard itself was destroyed as a result of an IRA attack in the 1920's and now stands as a ruin. The family later built a new home on the estate, which remains in the ownership of Lady Jennifer Bernard, the elder daughter of the late 5th and last Earl of Bandon by his first wife.
[edit] Earls of Bandon (1800)
- Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon (1755-1830), elected a representative peer in 1800
- James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon (1785-1856), elected a representative peer in 1835
- Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon (1810-1877), elected a representative peer in 1858
- James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon (1850-1924), elected a representative peer in 1881
- Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon (1904-1979)
