sentences:  He became subsequently one of the commissioners of education in Ireland.He succeeded his father as third earl in the Irish peerage in 1850, and retired from the House of Commons next year.On 12 March 1866 he was named a knight of St. Patrick, and on 11 June of the same year was created a peer of the United Kingdom, with the title of Baron Kenry, of Kenry, County Limerick.