Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot
Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin
QC
(1 July 1834 – 6 February 1904), was an Irish lawyer.
Political and legal career
MacDermot served as
Irish Privy Council. [1]
Personal life
MacDermot was the eldest son of Charles Joseph MacDermot by his wife Arabella Mary, only child of Hyacinth O'Rorke, representative of the House of O'Rorke of
Breffny. He succeeded his father 5 September 1873 as The Mac Dermot, Prince of Coolavin. [1]
MacDermot died on 6 February 1904, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles Edward MacDermot. [1] His grandson (by his fourth son, Henry) Niall MacDermot was a British Labour MP and junior minister between 1957 and 1970. His youngest son, Frank MacDermot, served as a member of both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann between 1932 and 1942.
See also
- Chiefs of the Name
- Kings of Moylurg
Notes
- ^ a b c Fitzgerald 1912.
References
- Fitzgerald, David (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- David Fitzgerald, rev. Peter Gray. "MacDermot, Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke (1834–1904)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34696. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- "Mac Dermot of Moylurg: The Story of a Connacht Family", Dermot Mac Dermot, 1996.
- Welcome To The Official MacDermot Clan Homepage[usurped] at www.macdermot.com
- Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland