David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 December 1838 |
| Died | 22 August 1919 (aged 80) Greenore, County Louth |
| Resting place | Putney Vale Cemetery, London 51°26′27″N 0°14′19″W / 51.440739°N 0.238533°W |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore
QC (3 December 1838 – 22 August 1919) was an Irish lawyer and Conservative
politician.
Background and education
Plunket was the third son of
Irish Bar in 1862.[citation needed
]
Political and legal career
After practising on the
House of Commons in 1895 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Rathmore, of Shanganagh in the County of Dublin.[3]
Apart from his political and legal career he was a director of the
Suez Canal Company, Chairman of the North London Railway for many years and a director of the Central London Railway at its opening in 1900..[citation needed
]
Personal life
In Dublin, Rathmore was a member of the Kildare Street Club.[4] He died in August 1919, unmarried, at the age of eighty, in the Railway Hotel in Greenore, County Louth[citation needed] and is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery in London. His peerage became extinct at his death.
References
- Mainly About People. p. 18. Retrieved 4 September 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "No. 24827". The London Gazette. 26 March 1880. p. 2245.
- ^ "No. 26680". The London Gazette. 15 November 1895. p. 6182.
- ^ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David Plunket
- . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). 1922.
