Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore

Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore of Monaghan (24 August 1792 – 1 December 1860) was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament and peer, from 1843 to 1852 Lord Lieutenant of Monaghan.

The son of Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore of Monaghan (1765–1842) by his marriage to Mary Ann Walsh, Henry Robert Westenra was born on 24 August 1792 at his mother's family seat, Walsh Park in County Tipperary. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he matriculated on 4 July 1810. His portrait was painted the same year by John Ferneley (1782–1860), showing him with his dogs and carrying a shotgun.

Westenra was Member of Parliament for County Monaghan from 1818 to 1830, again from 1831 to 1832 and from May to July 1834, and finally from 1835 to 1842. On 10 August 1842, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the titles of Baron Rossmore of Monaghan in the peerage of Ireland and Baron Rossmore of Monaghan in the peerage of the United Kingdom, the second title giving him a seat in the House of Lords. From 1843 to 1852 he was Lord Lieutenant of County Monaghan.

A member of a family of individualists, Rossmore was a prolific letter-writer, and his surviving letters have been described as "voluminous, frequently vitriolic, and very instructive".

He was also an accomplished player of the Irish pipes, and was considered to be the equal of a good professional piper. In Twenty Years Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate (1880), Frank Thorpe Porter recalled an evening when Rossmore

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