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Having served as Sheriff of County Leitrim in 1796 , Clements that same year became Colonel of the Donegal Regiment until its disbandment in 1802 . Two years later, he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl Of Leitrim , but subsequently failed in his attempts to be elected to the House Of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer . In 1831 , as well as becoming Lord Lieutenant for County Leitrim, Lord Leitrim was created Baron Clements in the Peerage Of The United Kingdom . Three years later he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick, and later that year he became a member of the Irish Privy Council . Lord Leitrim died in 1854 aged 86 at his residence of Killadoon in County Kildare . His eldest son having predeceased him in 1839 , he was succeeded in the earldom by his younger son, William Sydney Clements . |
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