Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd duke of

Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd duke of

▪ Irish general
born April 29, 1665, Dublin
died Nov. 16, 1745, Avignon, Fr.

      Irish general, one of the most powerful men in the Tory administration that governed England from 1710 to 1714.

      The grandson of the Irish statesman James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde, he inherited his grandfather's title in 1688 but deserted James II in the Revolution of 1688–89. He then fought in the wars of King William III. Ormonde served Queen Anne as lord lieutenant of Ireland from 1703 to 1707 and from 1710 to 1713. In 1711 he succeeded John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, as commander in chief of the British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession against the French (1701–13). Nevertheless, soon after he landed in the Netherlands, he was secretly instructed (May 1712) not to join England's allies in offensive operations while the Tory government was trying—unknown to the Allies and the Whigs—to come to terms with the French. Because Ormonde maintained ties with the Jacobites, who upheld Stuart claims to the English throne, he was removed from his command on the accession of the Hanoverian king George I in 1714. In June 1715 the Duke was impeached by the Whigs for his complicity in the secret Tory negotiations. He fled to France in August, and Parliament passed an act of attainder confiscating his titles and estates. Shortly thereafter he attempted, without success, to land in England during an abortive Jacobite rebellion. He settled in Spain and later lived at Avignon.

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