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Col. Edmund Bacon Hutton was the youngest son of William Hutton of Gate Burton, Lincolnshire. He served in the Royal Dragoons and was ADC to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Spencer). He married Lady Katherine Arabella Beaujolois Bury in 1875.
He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1793. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset for nearly fifty years, from 1808 to 1856. On 20 May 1824, he appointed himself Colonel of the Dorset Militia. He resigned the colonelcy at the beginning of 1846. He never married and on his death in May 1856, aged 83, the viscountcy and earldom became extinct. However, he was succeeded in the two baronies of Digby by his first cousin once removed Edward Digby, who became the 9th and 3rd Baron
Born in New York in 1846, Joyce moved to Ireland and was editor of the Midland Tribune, publishing 'The King's County: Epitome of its history, topography etc. ' in 1883. He moved to the Leinster Leader in 1884, before returning to the US in 1886. He died in Philadelphia in 1922.
Born c.1800 in Croghan, County Tipperary, and near to the town of Birr, County Offaly, Mary Monaghan married William Perkinson in or around 1825.
Williams-Egan Ltd. was founded in 1967 to merge the interests of D. E. Williams Ltd. and P. H. Egan Ltd. which were both companies involved in the wholesale of wine, spirit, mineral water and beer.
Founded in 1925 and acquired by the Williams Group through B. Daly & Co. Ltd. in 1966. The company was established as a wholesaler of poultry, rabbits and game and specialises since 1966 in poultry and game processing. The brand of the ACE chickens was one of their best known products.
It supplied the of principal supermarket chains and frozen food distributors in Ireland in the 1970s (a quarter of the Irish broiler chicken market - ca. 6 million birds per year).
