Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett

Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett KC, JP (22 July 1850 – 7 April 1913)[1] was an Irish politician.

For other people named Rowland Blennerhassett, see Rowland Blennerhassett (disambiguation).
Grave in cemetery of Trabuquet in Menton (06-France)

Early life

He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.[2] Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church, Oxford.[3]

Career

In a by-election in 1872, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kerry until 1885.[1] Blennerhassett was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878,[3] and in April 1894 became bencher and a King's Counsel.[2][4] He was a Justice of the Peace for Kerry.[3]

Personal life

On 21 September 1876, he married Mary Beatrice Armstrong, youngest daughter of the art historian Walter Armstrong.[5] They had one son.[5] Mary Beatrice is buried in the Armstrong family vault on the inside of the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery.

References
  1. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Kerry". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. "ThePeerage - Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett". Retrieved 19 March 2007.
  3. Debrett, John (1881). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 20.
  4. "No. 26501". The London Gazette. 6 April 1894. p. 1954.
  5. Burke, Bernhard (1912). Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons.
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