Aungier is a name that left a permanent mark on the map of Dublin, carried by a family who rose to the peerage and gave their name to one of the city’s historic streets.
Where does the Aungier surname come from?
Aungier is an Anglo-Irish name of English origin — the family came from Cambridgeshire, and the surname itself is French in derivation. They became established in Ireland in the early seventeenth century through Sir Francis Aungier, a senior lawyer who served as Master of the Rolls in Ireland and was created Baron Aungier of Longford in 1621.
The Aungiers and Aungier Street
The family’s fortunes were tied to Dublin, where they acquired the former lands of the Carmelite (White Friars) monastery. A later Francis Aungier, created Earl of Longford, laid out Aungier Street around 1661 as one of the city’s first fashionable suburbs beyond the old walls — at seventy feet, one of the widest streets in Dublin at the time. The street still carries the family name today.
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You may also like these names of the Anglo-Irish and Dublin tradition: Annesley, Aldborough, and Barnewall.
The family crest and tartan artwork shown on our Aungier products is decorative work inspired by Irish heraldic tradition, created to celebrate the name rather than as a statement of any individual’s right to arms.
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