James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon

James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, KP (12 September 1850 – 18 May 1924), was a British Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland and Irish representative peer.Bernard was a cousin of the Earl of Midleton, who was head of the southern Irish Unionist Alliance at the time of the Anglo-Irish War, 1919–21.He reorganised his various County Cork estates by way of settlement in 1876 and further in 1895 and 1896 including the mortgaging of the lands to his agents Richard Wheeler Doherty, and the appointment of George and John Jones and Doherty as his attorneys.[1] The family seat, Castle Bernard, near Bandon, County Cork, was one of the great houses burned during the Irish War of Independence in the early 1920s by the Irish Republican Army under Seán Hales on 21 June 1921.Reportedly, Lord Bandon would give one of his captors, Daniel (Dan) O'Leary (also known An Leabhar, Irish for 'The Book', based on the fact he was so well read), money each day for An Leabhar to travel from the house in Kilcolman townland, to Slattery's pub in Ahiohill to purchase Clonakilty Wrastler (a local beer).
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