Lowry-Corry

Family title

Earl Belmore

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Lowry-Corry	John Joseph Benison was agent to Lord Belmore's estates. In the 1870s, Lord Belmore owned 4,990 acres in county Fermanagh and 14,359 acres in county Tyrone.
Benison	In the 18th century the Benison family were mill owners in the Ballyconnell area of county Cavan. The first family home was Mount Pleasant on the outskirts of Ballyconnell. In the 1880s, Slieve Russell House was built a little further out from the town. In the mid-19th century James Benison held land in the parishes of Tomregan and Templeport. In 1878, he owned 570 acres in county Cavan, 141 acres in county Armagh and 275 acres in county Leitrim. The Benisons had a connection with the well-known Arnold literary family when in 1890 James Benison’s daughter Josephine married, as his second wife, Tom Arnold (1823-1900), son of Dr Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School. Tom Arnold was a brother of the English poet Matthew Arnold and grandfather of Aldous Huxley. James Benison’s son John Joseph married twice, first to Marie Johnston of Arran View, county Clare and secondly to Mary Ross only child and heiress of Arthur Ellis of Slieve-an-Erin Lodge, county Leitrim and Tankerville, county Dublin. John Joseph was agent for the Lord Belmore's estate.
Lowry (Pomeroy)	The Lowry family of Pomeroy House, county Tyrone, are a junior branch of the Lowry family, Earls of Belmore. In the mid-19th century Robert William Lowry held land in the county Cavan parish of Drumlane. In 1878, his eldest son Robert W. Lowry of Pomeroy owned 8,158 acres in county Tyrone and his second son John Fetherstonhaugh Lowry of Belmore, Ballymore, county Westmeath, owned estates in counties Tyrone (2,929 acres), Westmeath (1,328 acres) and Cavan (378 acres).