Dunleath was the second son of John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath and the former Frances Louisa Lyle (d. 1909).[1] His older brother was the Hon. Andrew Walter Mulholland, who died without issue at age 24 in 1877. His younger siblings included Hon. Alfred John Mulholland (who married Mabel Charlotte Saunderson); Hon. Alice Elizabeth Mulholland (wife of John George Beresford Massy-Beresford and mother to Monica Wichfeld); Hon. Helen Mulholland (wife of Sir George Herbert Murray); and Hon. Louisa Frances Mulholland (wife of Edward Roger Murray Pratt).[2]
His mother was a daughter of Harriet Cromie (a daughter of John Cromie) and Hugh Lyle of Knocktarna in County Londonderry. His father was the eldest son of the former Elizabeth MacDonnell (a daughter of Thomas MacDonnell of Belfast) and Lord Mayor of BelfastAndrew Mulholland of Ballywalter Park.[1] The Mulholland family were prominent in the cotton and linen industry in Ireland.[2]
In 1881, Lord Dunleath was married to Norah Louisa Fanny Ward, the only surviving daughter of Hon. Somerset Richard Hamilton Augustus Ward (fifth son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor), by his wife Norah Mary Elizabeth Hill (only daughter of Lord George Hill, fifth son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire). Together, they were the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter, including:[1]
He inherited the schooner Egeria from his father, and had the Charles E Nicholson designed 4 ton lugger Wolfhound built for him at Camper and Nicholsons, Gosport in 1893.[9]
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^Before his early death, his eldest son, Hon. Andrew Mulholland, was the father of one child, Daphne Norah Mulholland (1915–1983), who was born on 11 March 1915, some 4½ months after his death.[3] She married Sir John Guthrie Ward,[4] who served as the British Ambassador to Argentina and Italy.[5]
