Richard Hazleton
Richard Hazleton (5 December 1880 – 26 January 1943) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented North Galway (1906–1918) and North Louth (1910–1911).
The son of Thomas Hazleton, of Dungannon and Dublin, he was born at Dollymount, Dublin, in 1880. He was educated at Blackrock College.[1]
He was one of the founders of the Young Ireland Branch of the United Irish League, which included Thomas Kettle, Rory O'Connor and James Creed Meredith.[1] He was seen as one of the Irish Party's most promising young members. [2]
In 1901, he was elected a member of Blackrock Urban District Council and Rathdown Board of Guardians.[3]
He was first elected MP in the 1906 general election for North Galway. He also contested the South Dublin election unsuccessfully in 1906.[1]
Later, in the December 1910 election he was elected for the constituencies of North Galway and North Louth simultaneously, in the latter defeating Timothy Michael Healy in a bitter contest. He was later unseated from this constituency on a petition.[1]
On 24 May 1914, he resigned his seat by applying for stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, citing health and financial reasons.[4]
On 21 July 1914, he was re-elected to the same constituency in a by-election, in which he was the only candidate.[5]
He was honorary secretary to the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1907 to 1918.
He lost his seat in the 1918 general election, when he came to within a few hundred votes of retaining the Louth seat for the Irish Party. [2]
He later emigrated to England [2] In the 1923 British general election, he unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Rotherhithe constituency.[3]
He worked as an engineer and, in 1925 was secretary to the Society of Technical Engineers. From 1928 until his death, he served as general secretary of the Institution of Production Engineers.[6]
He was briefly engaged to the singer Margaret Burke Sheridan.
He died, after an operation, in London. [2] He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery (RC).
References
- ^ a b c d Obituary. R. Hazleton, ex-MP, Irish Times, 27 January 1943.
- ^ a b c d Maume, Patrick: The long Gestation, Irish Nationalist Life 1891-1918, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1999, pp. 230-31. ISBN 0-7171-2744-3
- ^ a b Mr Richard Hazleton, Irish Independent, 27 January 1943.
- ^ Resignation of Mr Hazleton, MP, Irish Times, 30 May 1914.
- ^ Mr Hazleton re-elected, Irish Times, 22 July 1914.
- ^ The Times, 27 January 1943.