(1703 - 68), yr. s. of 7th Vct. Kilmorey [I]; suc. bro. 1717 as 9th Vct.; m. 1730 Ldy. Mary Shirley (1712 - 84), dau. of 2nd E. Ferrers.
1750 - 3 Siena (May 1750), Florence (Aug. - Oct. 1751), Rome (Oct. 1751; Jun. 1752), Florence (Jun. 1753)
1755 Rome (Mar. - Jul. 1755), Turin
1759 Florence (Mar.)
Lord Kilmorey was living in Siena in May 1750,1 and in August 1751 Lord and Lady 'Killmurrey' were in Florence with her brother-in-law, Joseph Nightingale and his son and daughter. The Kilmoreys followed the Nightingales to Rome in October.2 Kilmorey was listed among the sponsors of the British Academy in Rome (see Charlemont) in 1752.3
Kilmorey was again in Florence in June 1753,4 but it is unclear whether he remained in Italy until 1755 when he and Lady Kilmorey were at Rome. 'Milord Chimere' and 'Mada sua moge' were living near the Piazza di Spagna at Easter 1755,5 and called on Robert Adam in May (Lady Kilmorey caressing him, said Adam, 'as if I had been her own son').6 They left Rome in July, travelling back to Turin with Count Girolamo Colloredo, son of the Austrian Vice-Chancellor, and were then to proceed home.7 On 20 March 1759 they were issued with passports in Florence, to travel home through Switzerland, Germany and Holland.8
1. SP 105/309, f.206 (Albani, May 1750). 2. Wal.Corr., 20:271, 278. 3. GM, 22[1752]:288. 4. Wal.Corr., 43:269. 5. AVR sa, S.Lorenzo in Lucina. 6. Fleming, Adam, 158. 7. AST
cd, mazzo 236, f.152 (Albani, 5 Jul. 1755). 8. ASF se 2741.