The 2nd earl of Charleville was educated at Eton and then began the usual career path for the Irish aristocracy. He served as High Sherriff for King's County in 1825 and then entered into political life in 1826 when he was returned as MP for Carlow Borough. After this constituency was abolished in 1832, he failed to get elected for King's County but was returned for Penryn and Falmouth in Cornwall which he held until 1835. On succeeding to the earldom in 1835, he inherited an estate heavily encumbered with debt and spent just nine years at Charleville Forest before leaving for Berlin in 1844 selling crops, stocks and implements. His wife, Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois, whom he married in Florence in 1821, died in Naples in 1848. The 2nd earl died in 1851.
Emily Frances Wood married the Honorable Alfred Bury in 1854. She became countess of Charleville in 1874 when the earldom reverted to Alfred, but he died shortly after in 1875, and the estates passed to his sister Lady Emily Howard-Bury. As Emily Frances and Albert had no children, the peerage became extinct on his death.
Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois Cambell, third daughter of Col John Campbell and Lady Charlotte Campbell, married the 2nd earl of Charleville in Florence in 1826. She enjoyed writing and her travel diary 'A Journey to Florence in 1817' which was written when she was a teenager, was published in 1951 following its discovery in a London bookshop. Her mother, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell (later Lady Charlotte Bury after a second marriage), was also a writer. Harriet had five children with Charles William, two of whom would succeed to the earldom: her eldest son, Charles William George and her third eldest son, Alfred, who succeeded as the 5th earl of Charleville when his nephew died in 1874. She died in Naples in 1848, predeceasing her husband by three years.
Lady Harriet Hugh Adelaide Bury was the second daughter of Charles William George, 3rd earl of Charleville and his wife Arabella. She was orphaned in 1859 at the age of 5 years when her father died, her mother having died in 1857. Harriet and her four siblings were made wards of chancery and placed in the guardianship of their uncle, Alfred Bury. In 1861 at the age of 7 years, Lady Harriet suffered a fatal accident at Charleville Castle when she fell from the banisters of the staircase.
Lady Katherine Arabella Beaujolois Bury was the eldest daughter of Charles William George, 3rd earl of Charleville, and his wife Arabella. She married Col. Edmund Bacon Hutton of the Royal Dragoons in 1873.
Lady Emily Alfreda Julia Bury was the youngest daughter of the 3rd earl of Charleville. She became heir to the estates at Charleville Forest when her uncle Alfred Bury, 5th earl of Charleville died leaving no male heirs. The title became extinct at this point. She married Captain Kenneth Howard an army officer, in 1881, and he assumed the additional surname Bury by royal license after their marriage. She had two children, Marjorie who died at 22 years of age, and a son, Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury, the famous mountaineer and explorer.
Major William Bacon Hutton Bury was the son of Edgar William Hutton and Vera Chetwynd-Staplyton. He married Bly Mildred Spillier in 1940 and had two children. He inherited the Charleville estate in 1963 on the death of his cousin Col. C. K. Howard-Bury. Hutton changed his surname by deed poll in 1964 to 'Hutton Bury'; his grandmother was Lady Katherine Beaujolois Arabella Bury. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and Wellington College. He fought in the Second World War and was wounded twice, retiring in 1945 with the rank of Major.
Marjorie Howard-Bury was the only daughter of Lady Emily Howard-Bury and her husband Capt. Kenneth Howard-Bury. She died at 22 years of age and there is a memorial to her at St Catherine's Church, Tullamore.
Born in Galway, 4 September 1848, and educated at St Ignatius College, Galway , he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on 7 November 1865 at Milltown Park, Dublin. He studied philosophy in France and theology at Louvain, Belgium. He spent three years teaching at Spring Hill, New Orleans, at Clongowes Wood College, Kildare and at St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg. He was ordained in Louvain. When the school at Tullabeg was amalgamated with Clongowes Wood College in 1886, he spent time at Tonchiennes, Belgium. He taught at the Sacred Heart College, Limerick and spent many years on the missions . He joined the community at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin where he spent the rest of his life. He was a gifted musician (violin) and a noted librarian. He died 3 February 1907.
Provincial: 15 August 1947-1953