Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston

Infobox Prime Minister
name =Jenico William Joseph Preston

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birth_date =1 June, 1837
birth_place =Gormanston Castle, County Meath, Ireland
death_date =29 October, 1907
death_place =Dublin, Ireland
spouse =Ismay Louisa Ursula Bellow & Georgina Jane Connellan
party =
constituency =
religion =
order =35th Governor of the Leeward Islands
term_start =1887
term_end =1893
successor =Charles Mitchell
predecessor =Charles Monroe Eldridge
order2 =14th Governor of British Guiana
term_start2 =1876
term_end2 =1880
successor2 =Charles Bruce
predecessor2 =Charles Bruce
order3 =7th Governor of Tasmania
term_start3 =August 8, 1893
term_end3 =August 14, 1900
successor3 =Arthur Havelock
predecessor3 =Robert Hamilton |

Jenico William Joseph Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston GCMG (1 June 1837-29 October 1907), was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator.

Gormanston was the son of Edward Anthony John Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston, and his wife Lucretia, daughter of William Charles Jerningham, and was born at Gormanston Castle, County Meath. He joined the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1855 and fought as a Lieutenant in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. However, Gormanston retired from the Army in 1860. He later held the ceremonial posts of High Sheriff of County Dublin and County Meath and was Chamberlain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the Marquess of Abercorn between 1866 and 1868. He succeeded his father in 1876 and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords in his junior title of Baron Gormanston, which had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for his father in 1868. In 1885 Gormanston was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, a post he held until 1887, and then served as Governor of British Guiana from 1887 to 1893 and as Governor of Tasmania from 1893 to 1900.

Lord Gormanston married firstly Hon. Ismay Louisa Ursula Bellew, daughter of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew, in 1861. They had no children. After his first wife's death in 1875 he married secondly Georgina Jane Connellan, daughter of Peter Connellan, in 1878. They had three sons and one daughter. Lord Gormanston died in October 1907, aged 70, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Jenico Edward Joseph Preston, 15th Viscount Gormanston.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090058b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition]