John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley

British peer and cricketer

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1767

Date of Death: 17-Mar-1831

Profession: cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley

  • John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (30 June 1767 – 17 March 1831), styled Lord Clifton until 1781, was a British peer and cricketer. He was the son of John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, and succeeded his father as earl on the latter's death in 1781.
  • He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 16 November, 1784.
  • On 3 July 1793, he was made a DCL.
  • He resided at Cobham Hall, near Gravesend in Kent. John Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer who made 27 known appearances in first-class cricket matches between 1789 and 1796.
  • He and his brother, the Honourable (later General) Edward Bligh, were staunch supporters of Kent cricket.
  • The Bligh brothers, who originated from Athboy, County Meath, have been called "the first Irish first-class cricketers".On 26 August 1791, he married Elizabeth Brownlow (d.
  • 22 December 1831), daughter of William Brownlow and his second wife Catherine Hall, by whom he had seven children: Lady Catherine Bligh (18 June 1792 – 10 January 1812) John Bligh, Lord Clifton (22 May 1793 – 3 June 1793) Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley (1795–1835) Lady Mary Bligh (31 May 1796 – 18 June 1823), married her half-first cousin, Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan on 1 June 1822 and had issue Hon.
  • William Bligh (17 May 1797 – 18 October 1807) Hon.
  • Sir John Duncan Bligh (1798–1872), a diplomat in Sweden and Hanover Lady Elizabeth Bligh (d.
  • 13 November 1872), married her first cousin Rev.
  • John Brownlow on 19 July 1833 and had issueDarnley Bay in the Northwest Territories, Canada was named for him by John Richardson.

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