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Hugh Massy, 2nd Baron Massy (14 April 1733 - 10 May 1790) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Massy was the son of Hugh Massy, 1st Baron Massy and Mary Dawson.[1]

Massy served as High Sheriff of County Limerick in 1765. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Askeaton in 1776 and sat until 1783. He succeeded to his father's title on 30 January 1788.[2]

He married Catherine Taylor, the daughter of Colonel Edward Taylor and Anne Maunsell, in September 1760.[3] They had eight children. He was succeeded by his son, also Hugh. His daughter Jane married William Greene.

References

  1. ^ Edmund Lodge, The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (Saunders and Otley, 1838), 326.
  2. ^ Edmund Lodge, The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (Saunders and Otley, 1838), 326.
  3. ^ Edmund Lodge, The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (Saunders and Otley, 1838), 326.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Askeaton
1776–1783
With: Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Massy
1788–1790 		Succeeded by
Hugh Massy
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