Gervase Parker Bushe

Gervase Parker Bushe (1744 – 13 August 1793) was an Irish landowner and MP.

Gervase Parker Bushe
Member of parliament for Granard
In office
1767–1776
Preceded byEdmond Malone
Succeeded byThomas Maunsell
High Sheriff of County Kilkenny
In office
1767–1776
Preceded byJohn Greene of Greeneville
Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City
In office
1778–1783
Preceded byCharles Agar
Succeeded byWilliam Cuffe
Member of Parliament for Fore
In office
1778–1783
Preceded byJames FitzGerald
Succeeded byStephen Francis William Fremantle
Member of Parliament for Lanesborough
In office
1790–1793
Preceded byRobert Dillon
Succeeded byEdmond Stanley
Personal details
Bornbapt. (1744-12-22)22 December 1744
Dublin, Ireland
Died12 August 1793(1793-08-12) (aged 48)
Kilfane, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

He was the son of Amyas Bushe of Dublin and his wife Elizabeth Parker. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (where he matriculated in 1763)[1] and at Trinity College Dublin (where he graduated BA, LLB and LLD). He became a lawyer and lived at Kilfane in County Kilkenny.[2]

He served as an MP in the Parliament of Ireland for Granard from 1767 to 1776, for Kilkenny City from 1778 to 1783, for Fore from 1783 to 1790 and for Lanesborough from 1790 to 1793.[3] He was appointed High Sheriff of County Kilkenny for 1768-69.[4]

He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy. In a paper presented to the Academy in 1789 he calculated the population of Ireland as approximately 4 million.[5]

He died in August 1793 at Kilfane. He had married Mary Grattan, the daughter of James Grattan, the Recorder of Dublin and MP for Dublin City and the sister of Henry Grattan, the anti-union MP. They had 10 children.

References
  1. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bushe, Gervas Parker
  2. "The Poets of Ireland". Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  3. "Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  4. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke
  5. "An Essay towards Ascertaining the Population of Ireland". JSTOR. January 1789. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
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