John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O'Neill PC (16 January 1740 – 18 June 1798) was an Irish politician.

O'Neill was the son of Charles O'Neill, Member of Parliament for Randalstown, by Catherine Brodrick, daughter of St John Brodrick, of Midleton, County Cork.[1]

He was returned to the Irish House of Commons for Randalstown in 1760, a seat he held until 1783, and then represented County Antrim between 1783 and 1793.[2] He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1781[3] and raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron O'Neill, of Shane's Castle in the County of Antrim, in 1793.[4] In 1795 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount O'Neill, of Shane's Castle in the County of Antrim, in the Irish peerage.[5]

Lord O'Neill married the Honourable Henrietta Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, in 1777. He was killed in the Battle of Antrim during the Irish Rebellion of 1798[6] at the age of 58 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son Charles, who was created Earl O'Neill in 1800.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 thepeerage.com John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O'Neill
  2. ↑ "leighrayment.com Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors - Ireland[usurped]
  4. ↑ "No. 13589". The London Gazette. 2 November 1793. p. 974.
  5. ↑ "No. 13821". The London Gazette. 10 October 1795. p. 1052.
  6. ↑ Macdonald, D L; McWhir, Anne (2010). The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832. Broadview Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-1551110516.
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