Biography of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent 1709-1788
Paternal Family Tree: Nugent of Carlanstown
On 23 Mar 1636 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent and Anne Craggs were married.
In 1709 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent was born to Michael Nugent.
On 16 Feb 1721 [his brother-in-law] James Craggs (age 34) died.
On 23 Jul 1724 John Bellew 2nd Baronet (age 64) died. His son [his future brother-in-law] Edward Bellew 3rd Baronet (age 29) succeeded 3rd Baronet Bellew of Barmeath in Louth.
On 14 Jul 1730 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 21) and Emilia Plunkett were married. She the daughter of Peter Plunkett 4th Earl of Fingall and Frances Hales Countess Fingall.
On 16 Aug 1731 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Nugent was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 22) and [his wife] Emilia Plunkett.
On 16 Aug 1731 [his wife] Emilia Plunkett died in childbirth.
In 1739 [his father] Michael Nugent died.
In Oct 1741 [his former brother-in-law] Edward Bellew 3rd Baronet (age 46) died. His son John Bellew 4th Baronet (age 13) succeeded 4th Baronet Bellew of Barmeath in Louth.
On 07 May 1744 Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley (age 29) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Berkeley. He the son of James Berkeley 3rd Earl Berkeley and Louisa Lennox Countess Berkeley. He a great grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. 
On 02 Jan 1757 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 48) and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 37) were married.
In 1758 [his daughter] Louisa Nugent was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 49) and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 38).
In 1758 [his daughter] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham was born to Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 49) and [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 38).
In 1767 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 58) was created 1st Viscount Clare, 1st Baron Nugent. [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 47) by marriage Viscountess Clare.
On 30 May 1767 William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 28) and [his step-daughter] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 47). She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. 
In 1771 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Nugent (age 39) died unmarried.
In 1775 [his son-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham (age 21) and [his daughter] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham (age 17) were married. She the daughter of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 66) and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 55).
In 1776 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 67) was created 1st Earl Nugent. [his wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 56) by marriage Countess Nugent.
Before 22 Apr 1777 John Tuchet 8th Earl Castlehaven (age 52) and [his sister-in-law] Susanna Drax were married. There is some uncertainty as whether this marriage is correct. Some sources describe him as having died unmarried? He the son of James Tuchet 6th Earl Castlehaven and Elizabeth Arundell Countess Castlehaven.
In 1784 [his step-son] George Cranfield Berkeley (age 30) and Emily Charlotte Lennox (age 20) were married. He the son of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 64). They were second cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 13 Oct 1788 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent (age 79) died. [his son-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham (age 35) succeeded 2nd Earl Nugent. Viscount Clare, Baron Nugent extinct.
On 29 Jun 1792 [his former wife] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 72) died.
Letters of Horace Walpole. Nugent is most affectedly an humble servant of Mr. Pelham, and seems only to have attached himself to the Prince, in order to make the better bargain with the ministry; he has great parts, but they never know how to disentangle themselves from bombast and absurdities. Besides those, there are two young men who make some figure in the rising Opposition, Bathurst(4) attorney to the Prince; and Potter, whom I believe you have had mentioned in my letters of last year; but he has a bad constitution, and is seldom able to be in town. Neither of these are in the scale of moderation.
(4) The Hon. Henry Bathurst, second heir of Allen, first Lord Bathurst, He became heir to the title upon the death, without issue, of his elder brother, the Hon. Benjamin Bathurst, in 1761. In 1746 he was appointed Attorney-General to Frederick, Prince of Wales; in 1754, one of the puisne judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1771, Lord Chancellor. He was, upon this occasion, created a peer, by the title of Lord Apsley. He succeeded his father as second Earl Bathurst in 1775, and died in 1794.-D.