Capt Lloyd Henry de RUVIGNY 7th Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval [14200]

  General Notes:

Lloyd being presented for baptism by Major-General H.R.H. Prince Edward (afterwards Duke of Kent), and Lieutenant-General Vaughan Lloyd, R.A.
Gazetted to an Ensigncy, 62nd Foot, November 12, 1807; Lieutenant, March 5, 1812; Captain, Foreign Hussars, 1813; present at the taking of Procida and Ischia in 1809 ; served in Sicily and Spain, 1810-12; on the staff of Lord William Bentinck, 1812 ; in command of the Foreign Hussars before Barcelona and on the eastern coast of Spain, under Lord F. Bentinck ; present at the Siege of Genoa and the taking of Paris, after the Battle of Waterloo; Knight of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword ; retired from the army November 27, 1829; succeeded his elder brother April 13, 1843.

Miss Hickson says that "Captain de Ruvigny and Georgina Morris were long remembered as the handsomest couple ever married in Tralee church.''

  Research Notes:

Antecedants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Massue,_Earl_of_Galway

Alternate titles: Baron Portarlington, Viscount Galway, Henri de Massue, Ruvigny et Raineval, Henri de Massue, Marquis de
Henri de Massue Galway, marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, also called (1692\endash 97) Viscount Galway, Baron Portarlington , (born April 9, 1648, Paris died Sept. 3, 1720, Hampshire, Eng.), French soldier who became a trusted servant of the British king William III.

Massue began his career as aide-de-camp to Marshal Turenne (1672\endash 75), then went on diplomatic mission to England (1678). After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), Massue, a prominent Huguenot, along with his father and brother, settled in England in 1688. In 1690 he forfeited his French estates by entering the English army as major general of horse; he fought with distinction in the Irish campaign and was created Viscount Galway in 1692.

One of the few men absolutely trusted by William III, he was nevertheless resented among English politicians because of his foreign birth. In 1694 he was appointed to command the allied armies in Savoy, and in 1697 he received an earldom and was sent as lord justice to Ireland. Feeling unsuited to politics, he happily retired in 1701, but in 1704 he was called out of retirement to command the allied forces in Portugal during the War of the Spanish Succession. After a decisive defeat at Almansa (April 1707), he again retired, only to be recalled again to act as lord justice of Ireland (1715\endash 16).
https://academic-eb-com.eres.qnl.qa/levels/collegiate/article/Henri-de-Massue-Galway-marquis-de-Ruvigny-et-Raineval/35946

RUVIGNY, HENRI DE MASSUE, Marquis de, afterwards Earl of Galway (1648\endash 1720), was born at Paris on the 9th of April 1648, and was the son of the 1st Marquis de Ruvigny, a distinguished French diplomatist, and a relative of Rachel, the wife of Lord William Russell. He saw service under Turenne, who thought very highly of him. Probably on account of his English connexions he was selected in 1678 by Louis XIV. to carry out the secret negotiations for a compact with Charles II., a difficult mission which he executed with great skill. Succeeding his father as " general of the Huguenots," he refused Louis's offer, at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to retain him in that office, and in 1690, having gone into exile with his fellow Huguenots, he entered the service of William III. of England as a major-general, forfeiting thereby his French estates. In July 1691 he distinguished himself at the battle of Aughrim, and in 1692 he was for a time commander-in-chief in Ireland. In November of that year he was created Viscount Galway and Baron Portarlington, and received a large grant of forfeited estates in Ireland. In 1693 he fought at Neerwinden and was wounded, and in 1694, with the rank of lieutenant general, he- was sent to command a force in English pay which was to assist the duke of Savoy against the French, and at the same time to relieve the distressed Vaudois. But in 1695 the duke changed sides, the Italian peninsula was neutralized, and Galway's force was withdrawn to the Netherlands. From 1697 to 1701, a critical period of Irish history, the Earl of Galway (he was advanced to that rank in 1697) was practically in control of Irish affairs as lord justice of Ireland. After some years spent in retirement, he was appointed in 1704 to command the allied forces in Portugal, a post which he sustained with honour and success until the battle of Almanza in 1707, in which Galway, in spite of care and skill on his own part, was decisively defeated. But. he scraped together a fresh army, and, although infirm, was reappointed to his command by the home government. After taking part in one more campaign, and distinguishing himself by his personal braver yin action, he retired from active life. His last service was rendered in 1715, when he was sent as one of the lords justices to Ireland during the Jacobite insurrection. As most of his property in Ireland had been restored to its former owners, and all his French estates had long before been forfeited, parliament voted him pensions amounting to £1500 a year. He died unmarried on the 3rd of September 1720. The English peerage died with him, but not the French marquisate.[1]

The later Viscounts Galway are descended from John Monckton (1695\endash 1751), who was created viscount in 1727. His first wife's mother, wife of the 2nd duke of Rutland, was a daughter of Lady William Russell, and thus a connexion of the Ruvignys.

Also http://www.spanishsuccession.nl/galway.html

Also http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1900s/Vol_6/Minns_suppl_3.pdf

Lloyd married Georgina MORRIS [14196] [MRIN: 4748], daughter of Samuel MORRIS of Balleybeggan [14164] and Sarah Stoughton GUN [14184], on 21 Feb 1816. (Georgina MORRIS [14196] was born on 15 Nov 1795 in Ballybeggan House, baptised on 26 Nov 1795 in Tralee and died on 8 May 1888.)