Nicholas Mahon Power
Nicholas Mahon Power (1787 – 1873)[1] was an Irish nationalist politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1847 to 1859.
Career
[edit]Nicholas Mahon Power was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Ballynakill and Faithlegg, barony of Gaultiere, County Waterford, at the time of Griffith's Valuation.
Standing as a Repeal Association candidate, he was elected in 1847 as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Waterford.[2] He was re-elected in 1852.[3]
Power and his fellow Waterford MP John Esmonde were elected as candidates of the Irish Whig Party, which had been in alliance with nationalists.[2] Power's brother, Patrick, had represented Waterford in 1835.[4]
After the election, and Power and Esmonde were among the 40 Irish Whigs who joined the new Independent Irish Party. The new party did not survive, and Power was re-elected as a Whig in 1857. He did not contest the 1859 election, and retired from Parliament.[2]
Family
[edit]Nicholas Mahon Power and his wife, Margaret, had seven children. The family home was Faithlegg House, Cheekpoint, County Waterford.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
- ^ a b c Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922. A New History of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 318. ISBN 0901714127. ISSN 0332-0286.
- ^ "No. 21354". The London Gazette. 31 August 1852. p. 2363.
- ^ a b Burke, Bernard (1863). "Power of Faithlegg". A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 1218.
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