Earl of Limerick is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, associated first with the Dongan family, then with the Pery family.
Read more about Earl Of Limerick: First Creation, Second Creation, Dongan Baronets, of Castletown (1623), Earls of Limerick, First Creation (1686), Barons Glentworth (1790), Earls of Limerick, Second Creation (1803)
Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or limerick:
“Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I’ve seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.”
—Anonymous.