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On 7 October 1768 he married Lady Henrietta Butler, daughter of the Earl of Carrick. He was M.P. for County Kilkenny from 1776 until, in 1779, he succeeded his father and became 11th Viscount Mountgarret. On 16 June 1785, aged only thirty-four, his wife died at Mount Juliet. After three days' illness, caused by a meal of strawberries and cider, he died, aged only forty-eight, at St. Stephen's Green, Dublin.
On the day of his death the following strange entry appeared in the private diary of Lord Clonmell, his enemy: 'Died Lord Mountgarret, as wicked a malignant selfish monster as I ever knew, a victim of his brutal appetites and thirst for blood; a lesson to vice, and a caution to be civil to all, obliging to many, to serve few, and offend none, as the safest, wisest, pleasantest mode of going through life.'
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