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James [Duke of Ormond] Butler, Duke of Ormond (19 Oct 1610 - 21 Jul 1688)

Irish statesman, soldier, and Lieutenant General. In the 1650s he lived in exile on the continent with King Charles II of England. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Butler,_1st_Duke_of_Ormond Relevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Ormond
 Relationships: James [Duke of Ormond] Butler was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Charles II of England (1630-1685)

Mr. Van Delure (-fl. c. 1697) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of James [Duke of Ormond] Butler
Linked Objects: Collector (minor) - head [of a moose]
 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. On the reverse a sword and a laurel branch placed crosswise between a ducal crown.
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)

Such another Head, with both the Horns intire was found some Years since by one Mr. Van Delure in the County of Clare, buried Ten Foot under Ground in a sort of Marle, and were presented by him to the late Duke of Ormond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who valued them so highly for their prodigious largeness, that he thought them not an unfit Present for the King, and sent them for England to King Charles the Second, who ordered them to be set up in the Horn-Gallery at Hampton Court; where they may still be seen among the rest of the large Heads both of Stags and Bucks that adorn that Place, but this so vastly exceeds the largest of them, that the rest appear to lose much of their (496) Curiosity by being viewed in Company with this. I am lately informed, these with the other Heads are since removed to the Guard-Room out of the Horn- Gallery.