Francis_Needham,_4th_Earl_of_Kilmorey
Francis Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey
Anglo-Irish peer and military officer (1883–1961)
Captain Francis Charles Adelbert Henry Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey PC (NI) OBE ADC DL (26 November 1883 – 11 January 1961), styled Viscount Newry until 1915, was a Royal Navy officer and Anglo-Irish peer.[1]
In 1916 he was appointed as an Irish representative peer, to sit in the House of Lords for life representing Ireland. No more such peers were appointed after the independence of the Irish Free State in 1922, and when Kilmorey died in 1961 he was the last such surviving peer.