Conway Blennerhassett KC (3 October 1693 – 7 June 1724) was a member of the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fr ...

. Blennerhassett was born at

Castle Conway Castle Conway is a former castle and stately home in the town of Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland. Today only the ruins of one wall remain. Originally called Killorglin Castle, a defensive structure was first built on the site next to the River ...

County Kerry County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the cou ...

, the eldest son of John 'Black Jack' Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Cross. He was the grandson of Robert Blennerhassett. He was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, before entering

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in 1710. He was a practising lawyer and was invested as a member of the

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. He served as the Member of Parliament for

Tralee Tralee ( ; ga, Trá Lí, ; formerly , meaning 'strand of the Lee River') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in Coun ...

from 1723 to 1725.ThePeerage.com (entry #279175) http://www.thepeerage.com/p27918.htm#i279175 He married Elizabeth Harman, the daughter of Colonel Wentworth Harman, with whom he had five children. He died prematurely at the age of 30. His grandson was

Harman Blennerhassett Harman Blennerhassett (8 October 1765 – 2 February 1831) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, a member of the Society of United Irishmen who emigrated in advance of their rebellion in 1798 to become a socially and politically distinguished plantation o ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blennerhassett, Conway 1693 births 1724 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Conway Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Irish politicians People from County Kerry Members of the Middle Temple Irish MPs 1715–1727 18th-century King's Counsel Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies