Viscount Ashbrook
Viscount Ashbrook is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1751 for Henry [Flower, 1st Viscount Ashbrook|Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow]. The title of Baron Castle Durrow, in the County of Kilkenny, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1733 for his father William Flower, 1st Baron [Castle Durrow|William Flower]. He was a Colonel in the Army and also represented County [Kilkenny (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|County Kilkenny] and Portarlington in the Irish House of Commons. He was praised by Jonathan Swift as "a gentleman of very great sense and wit"., the titles are held by the eleventh Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1995.
The family seat is Arley Hall, near Arley, Cheshire. Until 1922, the principal seat of the family was Castle Durrow, near Durrow, [County Laois|Durrow], County Kilkenny; in England they also owned Beaumont Lodge, near Old Windsor, Berkshire, and the manor of Shellingford in Shellingford, Berkshire.
Barons Castle Durrow (1733)
Viscounts Ashbrook (1751)
- Henry Flower, 1st Viscount Ashbrook
- William Flower, 2nd Viscount Ashbrook
- William Flower, 3rd Viscount Ashbrook buried at Shellingford
- Henry Jeffrey Flower, 4th Viscount Ashbrook
- Henry Jeffrey Flower, 5th Viscount Ashbrook
- Henry Jeffrey Flower, 6th Viscount Ashbrook
- William Spencer Flower, 7th Viscount Ashbrook
- Robert Thomas Flower, 8th Viscount Ashbrook
- Llowarch Robert Flower, 9th Viscount Ashbrook
- Desmond Llowarch Edward Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook,
- Michael Llowarch [Warburton Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook],
The heir-in-line is his son Benjamin Warburton Flower.