David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ He was very generous with his money during his lifetime, beautifying the cathedral, building a church at St. Dulough’s, and founding an educational hospital for boys in Dublin. In his will he left £500 to the French Church in Dublin, £700 for a charity school in Wales, £800 to the blue boys’ hospital of Dublin, and £1000 for charitable and pious uses either in Armagh or in Clonfeickle, and £2000 for his own or his wife’s relations, at her discretion, but this £5000 was to be disposed of as above, only if his daughter married without her mother’s consent. ”

“ He was born at Sedan, the 10th July 1595, and died at Paris, the 3rd November 1669. He had sixteen children, of whom five sons and one daughter survived him. The fifth surviving son was Pierre, who came to England in order to study for the Established Church. The very reverend and learned Dean of Armagh (William Reeves, D.D., LL.D.) , now Bishop of Down and Connor, furnished me, with his usual kindness and courtesy, with the following chronological memoir:—
Peter Drelincourt, sixth son of Charles Drelincourt, born in Paris, July 22, 1644. Came to Ireland as chaplain to the Duke of Ormond. ”

“ This daughter, their only child Anne, was married on 21st June 1739, to Lieut-Colonel Hugh, third and last Viscount Primrose. Both charity and wedlock seem to have been pleasingly arranged; the school in Armagh, called the Drelincourt Charity, was founded in 1732 by the dean’s widow, Mrs. Mary Drelincourt; she also founded a chapel and school, named Berse-Drelincourt, in the parish of Wrexham in Wales, which subsists upon the income of a landed estate now yielding about £500 per annum, dedicated to the double object. As a widow she resided in London; she styled herself “of the parish of St. ”