Henry Piers

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Henry Piers, Esq (1568–1623), also spelt Henry Pierce or Perse, was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Member of Parliament who owned the estate of Tristernagh Abbey in the early 17th century.

He was the only son of William Piers, a Yorkshireman who had been granted land in Ireland by Elizabeth I in return for military and other services. His mother was Ann Holt, of Holt Castle, Wrexham, on the north Welsh borders. Henry married Jane Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones , Archbishop of Dublin and Margaret Purdon, and had eight children.[1] He served as the secretary to Lord Deputy Chichester and represented the potwalloper constituency of Baltimore in the 1613 Irish Parliament.[2] In addition to his father's estates at Tristernagh he also acquired plantation land in Cavan.

Family Piers was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, who was later knighted, becoming Sir William Piers. Henry's grandson Sir Henry Piers, a soldier and notable antiquarian, was created a baronet in 1661, founding the Piers baronets of Tristernagh. One of his descendants was Sir John Piers, who was involved in a notorious adultery case in 1807, and was the subject of a poem by John Betjeman.

References

The Peerage of Ireland, v2, 1789, p.201

Clarke, A. Prelude to Restoration in Ireland, CUP, 1999, p.191

Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, v5, 1856, p.1620

Brewer, J. N. The Beauties of Ireland, v2, 1826, p.239

Woods, J. Annals of Westmeath, Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1907, p.307