Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly

Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly KP (26 September 1829 – 16 March 1888) was an Anglo-Irish Liberal politician.

Luttrellstown Castle

Annaly was the son of Henry White, 1st Baron Annaly, and his wife Ellen (née Dempster), and was educated at Eton. He served in the British Army and achieved the rank of Captain in the 13th Light Dragoons and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Longford Rifles. In 1859 he was returned to Parliament for County Clare however unseated by petition the following year, and then represented County Longford from 1861 to 1862 and Kidderminster from 1862 to 1865. Annaly served in the Liberal administration of Lord Palmerston as a Junior Lord of the Treasury between 1862 and 1866. From 1868 to 1873 he was State Steward to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland the Earl Spencer. He also held the honorary positions of Sheriff of County Dublin in 1861 and of County Longford in 1871 and Lord-Lieutenant of County Longford from 1873 to 1874. In 1885 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick.

Lord Annaly died in March 1888, aged 58, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Luke. Lady Annaly died in 1915.

Family

Lord Annaly married Emily, daughter of James Stuart, in 1853. Their English home was Titness Park near Cheapside in Sunninghill, Berkshire. They had five sons and three daughters. All his sons had military careers, his third son Robert notably achieving the rank of Brigadier-General in the 184th Infantry Brigade.

His daughter Violet married Major Lord Percy St. Maur (in previous generations also spelt Seymour), second son of Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset this and the related Northumberland and Norfolk dukedoms form the main instance of a pre-Tudor major landowning dynasty which has survived.

References

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Lord Francis Conyngham
Francis Macnamara Calcutt
Member of Parliament for County Clare
1859–1860
With: Crofton Moore Vandeleur
Succeeded by
Crofton Moore Vandeleur
Francis Macnamara Calcutt
Preceded by
Fulke Greville-Nugent
Henry White
Member of Parliament for County Longford
1861–1862
With: Fulke Greville-Nugent
Succeeded by
Fulke Greville-Nugent
Myles O'Reilly
Preceded by
Alfred Rhodes Bristow
Member of Parliament for Kidderminster
1862–1865
Succeeded by
Albert Grant
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Lord Annaly
Lord Lieutenant of Longford
1873–1874
Succeeded by
The Earl of Longford
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry White
Baron Annaly
1873–1888
Succeeded by
Luke White


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