Patrick Duigenan
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Patrick Duigenan, Catholic farmer surnamed Ó Duibhgeannáin.[1]
Through the tuition of the local
Roman Catholic population for the benefit of the minority Church of Ireland, and were consequently unpopular. In spite of his Anglican convictions, he provided his Catholic wife with a chapel at their home and arranged for a priest to say Mass for her on Sundays. He opposed the Maynooth Grant[3] and was appointed Grand Secretary of the Orange Order in 1801.[2]
He is remembered, however, mainly as a politician, on account of his opposition to
Bishop’s boroughs of the Irish Parliament between 1791 and 1798 and subsequently Armagh Borough until 1801. He sat then for Armagh City in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was a member of the Privy Counsel of Ireland from 1808 and a well-known character at Westminster until he died on 11 April 1816.[2]
He had married twice; firstly around 1782, to Angelina, daughter of Thomas Berry of Eglish Castle, King's County, and secondly, on 2 October 1807, Hester Watson, the widow of George Heppenstall, solicitor to the Dublin police, of Sandymount. He had no children by either marriage.[2]
See also
- Clan O Duibhgeannain
Notes
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 143.
- ^ a b c d "DUIGENAN, Patrick (?1737-1816), of Lilliput Lodge, Sandymount, Dublin". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ Patrick Duigenan (1737-1816) www.histparl.ac.uk
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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