Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye

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Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (1758-November 18, 1839) was the fourth son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet and succeeded his brother as the 3rd Baron in 1836.

He married firstly on June 19 1784 Mehetabel Hester Temple (who died on February 7 1798), second daughter and co-heir of Robert Temple, elder brother of Sir John Temple, Bt. and lineal descendant of the ancient family of Temple of Stowe, and had issue:

• Robert Temple Blackwood (July 13 1788-?), a captain in the 69th Foot and killed at the Battle of Waterloo
• Hans Blackwood (September 28 1792-?), who died unmarried
• Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye
• Henrietta Blackwood, who married in April 1807 William Stewart Hamilton, of Brown's Hall, County Donegal

He married secondly on July 8 1801 Elizabeth Finlay (who died in July 1843), eldest daughter and co-heir of William Henry Finlay, of Gennetts, County Meath, and had by her, with five daughters, issue:

• Rev. William Stear Blackwood (April 27 1802-May 28 1874), Vicar of Ballinderry, County Antrim, who married firstly on March 24 1832 Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Robert Hamilton, of Clonsilla, County Dublin, and had issue: (i) Hans Stevenson Blackwood (1833-1897), who married firstly in 1862 Jane West (who died December 1 1890), youngest daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John West GCB, and married secondly on January 6 1892 Mary Emily Hunt, only daughter of Henry Hunt JP, of Hunningham, Warwickshire, and had one son, Henry Stear Blackwood (1894-1917), educated at Eton College and was a Captain in the 9th Battalion of the London Regiment and died from wounds received in action; *Robert William Blackwood (1840-1909), a Lieutenant Colonel and former major in the 2nd Battalion of the Oxford Light Infantry and was married on April 19 1879 to Mary Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Simon Watson Taylor, of Erlestoke Park, Wiltshire, and had issue: (a) William Stear Blackwood (1880-1889), (b) Robert Montagu Blackwood (1881-1951), Lieutenant, Sherwood Foresters, District Commissioner in Nigeria 1905-1918, Captain commanding an RAF squadron 1918-1919 and married on April 29 1925 Daisy Kelsey, daughter of Thomas Kitching Kelsey (c) Hans Frederick Blackwood MC (1887-1936), Lieutenant Colonel, The Green Howards, served and wounded in the First World War and died unmarried; (d) Elizabeth Mary Blackwood (1909-?), who married on April 21 1909 Marcus Leonard Theodore Hare (who died in 1939), of Forest House, Chigwell Row, Essex and had issue;
• Price Frederick Blackwood (October 11 1841-December 1 1930), Major, Royal Artillery, JP for Berkshire and Northamptonshire, and married on July 14 1880 Henrietta Cator (who died on December 17 1936), only child of Albemarle Bertie Cator, and had issue: (a) Albemarle Price Blackwood (1881-1921) DSO, served in South Africa 1900-1901 and in the First World War (mentioned in dispatches twice), appointed to the Order of the Star of Romania, later Lieutenant Colonel and Major, The Border Regiment, Brigadier General on the General Staff 1919, and married on April 28 1920 Kyra (who died on January 16 1937), daughter of Albert Llewelyn Hughes and widow of Serge de Boursac, and had two daughters, Kyra Henrietta (1921-?) who was twice married and had issue, and Ursula Henrietta.
• Henry Stevenson Blackwood (August 4 1819-October 25 1865), Captain, 17th Hussars and married on April 25 1857 Lady Amelia Capel (who died on May 29 1892), sister of Arthur Algernon Capell, 6th Earl of Essex, and died without issue.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by James Blackwood	Baron Dufferin and Claneboye 1836–1839	Succeeded by Price Blackwood