Laurence Waldron

Laurence Waldron (1811 – 3 April 1875)[1] was an Irish Independent Liberal, Liberal and Whig politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1857 to 1865 as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Tipperary.

Laurence Waldron
Member of Parliament
for Tipperary
In office
14 April 1857 – 24 July 1865
Serving with Charles Moore (February 1865–July 1865)
Daniel O'Donoghue (1857–1865)
Preceded byFrancis Scully
Daniel O'Donoghue
Succeeded byCharles Moore
John Blake Dillon
Personal details
Born1811
Died (aged 63)
NationalityIrish
Political partyLiberal
Other political
affiliations		Whig
SpouseAnne White
ChildrenLaurence Ambrose Waldron

Waldron married Anne White, daughter of Francis White.[2] He had at least one son, Laurence Ambrose Waldron, who was an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Dublin St Stephen's Green from 1904 to 1910.[3]

Waldron first stood for Parliament as a Whig at a by-election in Tipperary, caused by the expulsion of James Sadleir from the House of Commons.[4] Unsuccessful on this occasion, he was elected as a Whig for the same seat just a month later at the 1857 general election, holding the seat — standing as a Liberal in 1859 — until he stood down in 1865. Upon the death of John Blake Dillon in 1866, he stood for the seat again, this time as an Independent Liberal, but was unsuccessful.[5][6]

He was also at some point a Deputy Lieutenant.[2]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
  2. "20". History of the RSCI (PDF). p. 453.
  3. "The Political Journal of Sir George Fottrell". Camden. Fifth Series. 33: 81–198. December 2008. doi:10.1017/S0960116308003242.
  4. "County Tipperary Election". Waterford News. 13 March 1857. p. 4. Retrieved 19 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "Mr. Waldron's Candidature". Dublin Evening Mail. 2 October 1866. p. 4. Retrieved 19 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.


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