The first creation came in the
Peerage of Ireland in 1766 when the lawyer and politician
John Gore was made
Baron Annaly, of Tenelick in the County of Longford. He had previously represented
Jamestown and
County Longford in the
Irish House of Commons and served as
Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1760 to 1764. Gore was the son of
George Gore, younger son of
Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, whose elder son Paul Gore was the grandfather of
Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran. George, like his son, was Attorney General and a High Court judge. Other members of the Gore family include the
Gore baronets of Magharabeg, the
Barons Harlech and the
Earls Temple of Stowe (a title which has come into the family through marriage). On Lord Annaly's death in 1784 the title became extinct. The second creation came in the
Peerage of Ireland in 1789 when
Henry Gore was created
Baron Annaly, of Tenelick, in the County of Longford. He was the younger brother of
John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly of the 1766 creation. Gore had previously represented
County Longford and
Lanesborough in the
Irish House of Commons. On his death in 1793 this title became extinct as well. The third creation came in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1863 when the
Liberal politician
Henry White was made
Baron Annaly, of Annaly and Rathcline in the County of Longford. He had earlier represented
County Dublin and
County Longford in the
House of Commons and also served as
Lord Lieutenant of County Longford. White's father
Luke White had previously represented
County Leitrim in Parliament as a
Whig. The first Baron's son, the second Baron, sat as a
Liberal Member of Parliament for
County Clare,
County Longford and
Kidderminster and served as a
Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1862 to 1866 in the
Liberal administrations of
Lord Palmerston and
Lord Russell. He was also
Lord Lieutenant of County Longford. , the title is held by his great-great-grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1990. He served briefly as a government whip in 1994 in the
Conservative government of
John Major. However, Lord Annaly lost his seat in the
House of Lords after the
House of Lords Act of 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper chamber of Parliament. The family seat was
Luttrellstown Castle, near
Clonsilla,
Dublin in
Republic of Ireland. ==Barons Annaly, first creation (1766)==