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General First nameArthur
LastnameFrench
GenderMale
CountryIreland
Date of birth1855-07-09
Place of birthFrenchpark, County Roscommon, Ireland
Date of death1913-09-23
Place of deathFrenchpark, County Roscommon, Ireland


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Lord de Freyne, 4th Baron de Freyne of Coolavin

From: http://www.patrickcomerford.com/2017/09/why-did-two-people-marry-each-other.html:

“Arthur French was known as a cruel landlord and ruled his estate and his family with a rod of iron. In 1902, when his tenants refused to pay their rent, he took leading members of the Irish Party to court, accusing them of incitement.

The fourth Lord de Freyne had the doubtful pleasure of reading his own obituary in The Times on 11 September 1913. On 23 September 1913, The Times, reported: ‘Lord de Freyne, whose death was wrongly announced last Thursday week, died yesterday morning at his residence, Frenchpark, Co Roscommon, in his 59th year.’

When he died, Frenchpark and the title passed to his eldest son, Captain Arthur Reginald French. In 1902, as a 23-year-old, this Arthur was also at the centre of a society scandal that the London evening newspapers called ‘a romance of the peerage’ when he married an 18-year-old barmaid and single mother, Annabel Angus, in Rothes in Scotland.”

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Archive statistics Career1879 - 1879
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Matches1
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Tournaments Nice - 1879