William Handcock, 1st Viscount Castlemaine

William Handcock, 1st Viscount Castlemaine, PC (28 August 1761 – 7 January 1839) was an Irish MP and supporter of Union with Great Britain. He was born in Dublin, Ireland to Reverend Richard Handcock and Sarah Toler. On 20 March, 1782 he married Lady Florinda Trench, daughter of William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty and Anne Gardiner, Countess of Clancarty. William and Florinda had no children and when Handcock was created Baron Castlemaine (in the Peerage of Ireland) on 21 December 1812 the title had a special "remainder" "failing heirs of his body to his brother".Fact|date=March 2008 He was further created Viscount Castlemaine on 12 January 1822 but without a "special remainder". On his death his viscountcy became extinct and his barony passed to his brother whose descendants still hold the title.

He was Constable and Governor of Athlone 1813–1839 and Governor of County Westmeath 1814–1831.

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* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p4869.htm#i48690 thepeerage.com] Accessed March 12,2008
* Lodge, Edmund. "The Peerage of the British Empire As at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications Pf the Nobility, by Edmund Lodge, to Which Is Added a View of the Baronetage of the Three Kingdoms." (p. 85) London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. [http://books.google.com/books?id=grFfysva5rkC&pg=PA85&dq=William+Handcock,+1st+Viscount+Castlemaine&as_brr=1 googlebooks] Accessed March 12, 2008