State of the Peerage of Ireland, at and Since the Time of the Union, 1801 to 1888 Also List of the Knights of St. Patrick, at and Since the Institution of That Order, 1783 to 1888 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from State of the Peerage of Ireland, at and Since the Time of the Union, 1801 to 1888: Also List of the Knights of St. Patrick, at and Since the Institution of That Order, 1783 to 1888

Abercorn receiving a Dukedom (for that reward his services had doubtless well merited) but that such Dukedom should be one in the Kingdom of Ireland, effected (in a way always of doubtful legality and at that time almost obsolete) by promotion of his Irish Viscountcy of Strabane.

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