Richard Allman

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Richard Lane Allman
Born1813
Died22 December 1904
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Irish businessman, House of Commons member of the United Kingdom from 1880-1885
Known forHis participation as an Irish Liberal Party politician

Richard Lane Allman (1813 – 22 December 1904)

Irish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. His brother was the botanist and natural history professor George Allman
.

Early life

Allman was the son of James C. Allman and his wife Sarah née Lane.[2]

The family were entrepreneurs in Bandon in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[3] Initially they ran a cotton mill at Overton, near Bandon, but when this declined they established Bandon Distillery in 1826.[4]

Business life

great depression. Production stopped in 1925, and the business closed in 1929.[5]

Parliament

At the

Percy Broderick Bernard, a nephew of the 3rd Earl of Bandon whose family had held the seat for most of the 19th century.[6]

However, Bernard

Member of Parliament (MP) for Bandon.[6] He had won 217 votes, against the 172 for the Conservative J. W. Payne.[6]

The borough was disenfranchised at the 1885 general election.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
  2. ^ Robert Henry Mair, ed. (1881). "Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1881". London. p. 4. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  3. NUI Galway
    . Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Bandon Allman's Distillery papers" (PDF). National Library of Ireland. 2002. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Allman's Bandon Distillery – Co. Cork 1826 to 1925". The Ireland Whiskey Trail. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  6. ^
    ISSN 0332-0286
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Percy Broderick Bernard
Member of Parliament for Bandon
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Constituency abolished