John Morrogh (1849 - 4 October 1901) was an Irish businessman and politician. Educated at the Christian Brothers' Schools, Cork, he was involved in the working of the

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diamond mines and became a director of

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. Making a lot of money in South Africa at the end of the 1860s, he returned to Ireland about 1887 and was proprietor of a woollen manufacturing company, Morrogh Brothers and Co., in Cork.'Obituary', ''The Times'', 5 Oct 1901 In a by-election in 1889, he was elected MP for South East Cork, and remained as member for the constituency until resigning in 1893.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morrogh, John 1849 births 1901 deaths Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cork constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 Anti-Parnellite MPs People educated at Christian Brothers College, Cork