John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle

Who was John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle?

John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle was an Irish peer and politician.

Lysaght sat as a Member of the Irish House of Commons for Charleville from 1727 until 1758, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Lisle, of Mountnorth in the County of Cork. He married Catherine Deane, daughter of Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and had five children. He died in July 1781 and was succeeded in the barony by his son John.