Robert Henry Metge (1850 – 19 September 1900)
was an
Irish Home Rule League
The Home Rule League (1873–1882), sometimes called the Home Rule Party, was an Irish political party which campaigned for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until it was replaced by the Irish Parliam ...
politician. He was born in Athlumney, Co Meath, the son of John Charles Metge and Eliza Ibbetson Cole of Navan, Co Meath.
A barrister, he was elected as a
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Meath
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in 1880, but resigned the seat on 30 July 1883.
His first marriage was in 1874 to Frances Thomasine Virginia Lambart, with whom he had thirteen children; his second wife
Lillian Margaret Metge was a leading suffragette, with whom he had two daughters. After his premature death, she was arrested for causing an explosion, damaging the
Cathedral
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in Lisburn.
Robert Metge died in Kingstown, Co Dublin on 19 September 1900.
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UK MPs 1880–1885
1850 births
1900 deaths
Home Rule League MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Meath constituencies (1801–1922)
Irish suffragists
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