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- Earl of Ranfurley, Knox, of Dungannon, in the County of Tyrone, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1831 for Thomas Knox 2nd. Viscount Northland. He had already represented County Tyrone in the House of Commons, and had already been created Baron Ranfurly, of Ramphorlie in the County of Renfrew, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826. Knox was the eldest son of Thomas Knox, who represented Dungannon in the Irish House of Commons. He was created Baron Welles, of Dungannon in the county of Tyrone, in 1781 and Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the county of Tyrone, in 1791. Both titles were in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Northland also sat in the British House of Lords as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers.
This noble Lord derives his descent from Adam, the son of Uchtred, who lived in the reign of K. Alexander II of Scotland; he obtained from Walter, son of Allen, Lord of the barony of Renfrew, and progenitor (says the pedigree) to the Stewarts, Kings of Scotland, the lands of Knox, in the said barony, and according to the prevailing practice of those times, assumed from thence the Surname or hereditary deflagration of Knox. The great Stewarts of Scotland, also granted to the common ancestors of this family, the lands of Ranfurley, Upper Craigends, and Grieff-Castle all in fee; of which estate this family continued possessed until the last century, when they were sold to the Lord of Dundonald.
To this Adam de Knox succeeded John, his son, who lived in the reign of K. Alexander III when we find him witness to the donation or grant which Sir Anthony Lombard, Knight, made to the Abbot and Convent of Paisley in1227, viz., the third part of the lands of Tullow, as appears by the Chartulary of the said monastery of Paisley, now in the hands of the Earl of Dundonald.
The direct line of this family is here unavoidable broken, owing to the loss of many ancient charters and muniments which the civil commotions, and the distracted state of that kingdom, occasioned; but we have been enabled, from the family evidences, to trace their descent during the latter three hundred years; and from the first charter preserved in their archives, we learn that K. James II made a grant to Uchtred Knox of Ranfurley (upon his resignation of the same) of the lands of Ranfurley and the whole estate of the family, to be held from the King; - and from another charter of K. James III.
In 1474, now extant and in the public archives at Edinburg, it appears, that this Uchtred Knox, promiscuously designed of the ILK and of Ranfurley was son and heir to John Knox of that ILK or Knox , Ranfurley and Grieff Castle.
(Source: Ivan Knox, Corcam Ballybofey, Lifford, Co Donegal, Ireland Sept 2009. Taken from The Gentleman's and London Magazine Monthly Chronologer 1714-1794)
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1485 - Yes, date unknown