Richard Longfield
Richard Longfield (7 May 1802 – 18 June 1889) was an Irish Member of Parliament.
He was born the eldest son of John and Eleanor (née Lucas) Longfield of Longueville.[1]
He was appointed High Sheriff of County Cork for 1833–34,[2] an office that had also been held (1829–30) by his father.
He sat as a
British House of Commons for County Cork from 1835 to 1837. Having successfully petitioned against the re-election in January 1835 of the radical Repeal MP Feargus O'Connor
, on the grounds that O'Connor failed the property qualification then required of MPs, Longfield took the seat on 5 June.
He married twice;firstly Harriett Elizabeth, the daughter of John M'Clintock, with whom he had one son (killed in the Crimea) and secondly Jemima Lucy, the daughter of Wyrley Birch of Norfolk, with whom he had three sons and two daughters.[1]
A relation, also named
Act of Union 1800
.
References
- ^ a b Burke, Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland. p. 418.
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1871). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. p. 811.
