Rowland Blennerhassett (Irish politician)
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Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett KC, JP (22 July 1850 – 7 April 1913)[1] was an Irish politician.
He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.[2] Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church College, Oxford.[3] In a by-election in 1872, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kerry until 1885.[1] Blennerhassett was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878,[3] and became later a bencher and a King's Counsel.[2] He was a Justice of the Peace for Kerry.[3]
On 21 September 1876, he married Mary Beatrice Armstrong, youngest daughter of Walter Armstrong.[4] They had one son.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Kerry". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
- ^ a b "ThePeerage - Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett". http://www.thepeerage.com/p16778.htm#i167776. Retrieved 19 March 2007.
- ^ a b c Debrett, John (1881). Robert Henry Mair. ed. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. pp. 20.
- ^ a b Burke, Bernhard (1912). Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons.
[edit] External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett
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