John Blennerhassett (15 June 1715 – 1763) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...

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

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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

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as the Member of Parliament for

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, 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.ThePeerage.com (entry #279691)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blennerhassett, John 1715 births 1763 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Lawyers from County Kerry Members of the Middle Temple 18th-century Anglo-Irish people High sheriffs of Kerry

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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies Politicians from County Kerry