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Kerry (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
County Kerry was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. Following the Acts of Union 1800 the county retained two seats. Boundaries and boundary changes This constituency was based in County Kerry. History In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II of England, James II, Kerry was represented by two members. Members of Parliament * 1585–1586: John Fitzgerald and Thomas Spring of Castlemaine, Thomas Spring * 1613–1615: Daniel O'Sullivan Beare and Stephen Rice of Ballyruddell * 1634–1635: John FitzGerald and Walter Crosbie and Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet, Sir Valentine Browne * 1639–1649: Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet, Sir Valentine Browne (died 1640 and replaced by Maurice Fitzgerald) and Edward Denny (1605–1646), Sir Edward Denny * 1654: Sir Hardress Waller; Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet, Henry Ingoldsby (First Protectorate Parliament, Westminster) * 1656: Sir Hardress Waller; Sir Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Kerry
County Kerry () is a Counties of Ireland, county on the southwest coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is bordered by two other counties; County Limerick, Limerick to the east, and County Cork, Cork to the south and east. It is separated from County Clare, Clare to the north by the Shannon Estuary. With an area of and a population of 156,458 as of 2022, it is the List of Irish counties by area, 5th largest of Ireland's 32 counties by land area, and the List of Irish counties by population, 15th most populous. The governing Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority is Kerry County Council. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Kerry is Ireland's most westerly county. Its List of Irish counties by coastline, rugged coastline stretches for and is characterised by bays, sea cliffs, beaches and many small offshore islands, of which the Blaskets and the Skelligs a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas FitzMaurice (Irish MP) (1898–1977), Australian rules footballer
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Thomas Fitzmaurice or Thomas FitzMaurice may refer to: * Thomas Fitzmaurice, 16th Baron Kerry (1502–1590), Irish baron * Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry (1574–1630), his grandson, Irish military leader in the Nine Years' War * Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry (1668–1741), his great-grandson, Irish peer and politician * Thomas Fitzmaurice (MP) (1742–1793), his grandson, Member of Parliament for Calne, and for Chipping Wycome * Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney (1803–1877), his grandson * Tom Fitzmaurice Thomas Joseph Cullinan Fitzmaurice (7 July 1898 – 25 December 1977) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football A brilliant centre-half-back, he commenced his career with Essendon Football Club 1918. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Petty, 1st Marquess Of Lansdowne
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (2 May 17377 May 1805), known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister in 1782–83 during the final months of the American War of Independence. He succeeded in securing peace with America and this feat remains his most notable legacy. Lord Shelburne was born in Dublin and spent his formative years in Ireland. After attending Oxford University, he served in the British Army during the Seven Years' War. As a reward for his conduct at the Battle of Kloster Kampen, Shelburne was appointed an aide-de-camp to George III. He became involved in politics, becoming a member of parliament in 1760. After his father's death in 1761, he inherited his title and entered the House of Lords. In 1766, Shelburne was appointed as Southern Secretary, a position which he held for two years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1761 Irish General Election
The 1761 Irish general election was the first general election to the Irish House of Commons in over thirty years, with the previous general election having taken place in 1727. Despite few constituencies hosting electoral contests, the election was significant due to it taking place in a time of rising political awareness within the Irish public, with many being drawn to the cause of patriotism. Background Unlike England, which had passed the Triennial Acts in 1694, thereby requiring elections every 3 years (and following 1716 every 7 years), Ireland had passed no similar pieces of legislation. As a result, the only limit on a term of parliament was the life of the monarch. This did not mean that the Commons had the same membership between 1727 and 1761, and numerous vacancies had occurred over the years, which had in turn been filled through by-elections. By the late 1750s the lack of frequent elections was becoming a contested issue, and the issue was taken up by the patriot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Crosbie
Lancelot Crosbie (1723 – August 1780) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Biography He was the son of Maurice Crosbie of Ballykealy and Catherine Sandes. He lived at Tubrid House, Ardfert, County Kerry. He entered the Middle Temple in 1743. Crosbie served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Kerry between 1759 and 1760. He then represented Ardfert from 1762 to 1776, with the backing of his first wife's family, the Crosbies. His first wife was Hon. Elizabeth Crosbie, daughter of Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Brandon and Lady Elizabeth Fitzmaurice. The couple were distant cousins. They had no children. By his second wife Mary Blennerhassett, daughter of Colonel John Blennerhassett and Jane Denny, he was the father of three children, including John Gustavus Crosbie. John, like his father, was MP for Kerry. In 1794 he caused a scandal by killing the sitting MP, Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet, in a duel. His own sudden death three years later was widely ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blennerhassett (1715–1763)
John Blennerhassett (15 June 1715 – 1763) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Blennerhassett was the son of the politician, John Blennerhassett, and Jane Denny.Sir Bernard Burke, ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland'' (1899), p.48. He was admitted to Middle Temple in 1733 and subsequently practised as a lawyer. He held the office of High Sheriff of Kerry in 1740. In 1751 he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Kerry, serving until 1761. In 1762 he was re-elected and sat as the MP for Kerry until his death the following year. He married, firstly, Anne Crosbie, daughter of Colonel William Crosbie and Isabella Smyth, on 21 February 1736. He married, secondly, Frances Herbert, daughter of Edward Herbert and Hon. Frances Browne, on 10 April 1753. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Petty, 1st Earl Of Shelburne
John Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC (Ire) (1706 – 14 May 1761), known as John FitzMaurice until 1751 and as The Viscount FitzMaurice between 1751 and 1753, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. He was the father of William Petty FitzMaurice, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1782 to 1783. Life Born John FitzMaurice, Lord Shelburne was the second son of Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, and Anne, daughter of Sir William Petty (1623–1687). He was the younger brother of William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry, and the nephew of Charles Petty, 1st Baron Shelburne and Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne. He was educated at Westminster School and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1727. In 1751 he succeeded to the estates of his uncle the Earl of Shelburne (who had died childless) and assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Petty in lieu of his patronymic. Later the same year he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Dunkeron and Visco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Denny (politician)
Arthur Denny (29 April 1704 – 8 August 1742) was an Irish politician. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. Denny was a Member of Parliament for County Kerry in the Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ... from 1727 until his death in 1742.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.84 (Retrieved 29 March 2020). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Denny, Arthur 1704 births 1742 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies Alumni of Trinity College Dublin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Brandon
Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Brandon, ( –1762) was an Irish politician and peer. He was the son of David Crosbie, High Sheriff of Kerry, and his wife Jane Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton of Lisclooney, County Offaly, and grandson of Sir Thomas Crosbie, also High Sheriff of Kerry, and his wife Bridget Tynte. His father and grandfather both opposed the Glorious Revolution, and thereafter lived quietly on their County Kerry estates; Maurice's election to the House of Commons in 1713 marked the family's return to political prominence. The Crosbie family were of Gaelic and Catholic origin, but Maurice's ancestor John Crosbie converted to the Church of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I and was made Bishop of Ardfert. His descendants became substantial landowners in Kerry: the senior branch of the family ere the Crosbie baronets of Maryborough, the last of whom, Sir Edward Crosbie, was executed for treason as a United Irishman in 1798. Maurice was educated at Trinity Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1713 Irish General Election
The 1713 Irish general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons. The election took place during a high-point for party politics in Ireland, and saw heavy losses for the Tories and the emergence of a Whiggish majority in the commons. Election Since 1703 Irish politics had taken on a far more confrontational hue, with clear party dividing lines being drawn along Tory-Whig lines, mirroring the division in England (and later Great Britain). Simultaneously Irish politics, like British politics, had come to focus on questions of religion, with the ruling Anglican elite fearing subversion from both the majority Catholic population, and the growing, and equally hostile, Presbyterian population in Ulster. Irish Whigs advocated protestant unity, seeing Catholics as the greatest threat, and thereby advocated further penal laws. In contrast the Tories regarded Ireland's Catholics as a spent force, and focused their efforts on dealing with Ireland's growing Presbyterian popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blennerhassett (1691–1775)
Colonel John Blennerhassett (1691 – 5 May 1775) was an Anglo-Irish politician who represented two constituencies in the Irish House of Commons between 1709 and 1775.Sir Bernard Burke, ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland'' (1899), 48. Blennerhassett was born in County Kerry, the eldest son of John Blennerhassett and Margaret Crosbie. He served in the Kerry Militia and was a colonel by 1756. He was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 1709, taking his father's seat representing County Kerry.ThePeerage.com (entry #279655) http://thepeerage.com/p27966.htm#i279655 Between 1713 and 1715, he was MP for Tralee. He was again returned as the MP for Kerry in 1715, serving until 1727. He served as High Sheriff of Kerry in 1717. Between 1727 and 1760, he served as the MP for Tralee, before serving as MP for Kerry for a third period between 1761 and his death in 1775. He was Father of the Irish House of Commons. He married Jane Denny, with whom he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
