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- 5 June 1873 (Creation)
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Charles William Francis inherited Charleville Estate on the death of his father, the 3rd earl in 1859. He was a minor on inheriting the title, being just seven years old at the time. He never married and died on Staten Island, New York in 1874 at the age of 22. His coming of age the previous year was a grand affair in Tullamore with much celebrations and festivities in the town. As the 4th earl died with no male heirs, the earldom passed to his uncle Alfred, who had been his guardian in his minority.
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Newspaper clipping from The King’s County Chronicle, featuring the coming of age of Charles William Francis Bury, the 4th Earl of Charleville, and the great lengths to which all the townspeople went, “the humble labourer as well as the great merchant”, in adorning their dwellings for the benefit of the Earl. At a celebratory banquet, reference was made to good management of the lineage in their estates, and through their patronage, Tullamore, which in the early part of the 18th century was an “insignificant village” now stands “second to none among the same class of provincial towns”.