Lachlan MacLachlan (9 May 1791 – 30 April 1849) was a
Scottish-born barrister and, briefly, a
Repeal Association
The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.
The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to ...
MP.
MacLachlan, the son of Robert MacLachlan and Mary Campbell, was born in
Strathlachlan.
MacLachlan became Repeal Association
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Galway Borough in
1832
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.
* January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white pla ...
but was unseated on petition on 30 April 1833.
He was awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Pembroke estate in
Tobago
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, as he was, alongside
Andrew Henry Lynch
Andrew Henry Lynch (1792 – 13 July 1847) was an Irish barrister and a Repeal Association MP.
He was the only son of Patrick Lynch and Jane Kelly of Strokestown. He owned the townlands of Lydacan and Lisswulla in Claregalway.
In 1810, he gr ...
and James Campbell, an assignee of a mortgage, probably as executors and beneficiaries of the will of his uncle Lt General James Campbell (1743–1820).
MacLachlan died in Galway in 1849.
References
External links
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1791 births
1849 deaths
Irish Repeal Association MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Galway constituencies (1801–1922)
People from Argyll and Bute
Strachur
UK MPs 1832–1835
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