Brief account of the Irvine family, County Fermanagh

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manently into the hands of the Whigs, these
showed no disposition to confer favors on
Tory families. And afterwards, again, Colonel
Irvine's grandson, Colonel William Irvine,
having taken a leading part in the Irish
Volunteer movement of the latter part of
the eighteenth century, became particularly ob-
noxious to the Government of that period,
when the Whig monopoly of power had passed
away.
The Baronetcy has therefore remained in
abeyance ever since Sir Gerard's death, and
has not as yet been legally revived in favor
of his heirs.