Broderick Chinnery

Sir Broderick Chinnery, 1st Baronet (13 February 1742 – May 1808),[1] was an Irish politician and baronet.

He was the fourth son of Reverend George Chinnery and his wife Eleanor Whitfield, daughter of William Whitfield.[2] Chinnery was barrister and became High Sheriff of County Cork in 1786.[3] He sat as Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr from 1783 to 1790.[4] Subsequently he represented Bandonbridge in the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union in 1801[4] and thereafter Bandon in the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1806.[5] On 29 August 1799, Chinnery was created a Baronet, of Flintfield, in the County of Cork.[1]

Escutcheon of the Chinnery baronets of Flintfield

In February 1768, he married firstly his second cousin Margaret Chinnery, daughter of Nicholas Chinnery.[3] They had three daughters and three sons.[3] Margaret died in 1783, and Chinnery married secondly Alice Ball, fourth daughter of Robert Ball on 2 July 1789.[3] He had two sons and two daughters by his second wife.[6] Chinnery was succeeded in the baronetcy by Broderick, his eldest and only surviving son of his first marriage.[6]

References
  1. "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. O'Laughlin, Michael C. (1999). Families of County Cork, Ireland, from the Earliest Times to the 20th Century. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). London: Irish Roots Cafe. p. 47.
  3. "ThePeerage - Sir Broderick Chinnery, 1st Bt". Retrieved 2 April 2009.
  4. "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Bandon". Archived from the original on 17 November 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 241.
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