Edward Robert King-Harman
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Colonel Edward Robert King-Harman (1838 - June 10 1888) was an Irish Protestant landlord and politician.
He held the UK parliamentary seat of Sligo County from January 12 1877 - April 10 1880, Dublin County from 1883 - 1885 (according to T M Healy initially as a Nationalist Home Ruler and later a Unionist), and the seat of Isle of Thanet as a Unionist (Conservative) from December 1 1885 to his death from heart disease at Rockingham in Boyle, Ireland at the age of 49 in 1888.
He ran unsuccessfully as Isaac Butt's Nationalist Home Rule candidate in the May 1870 rerun of the December 1869 Longford bye-election after the result of the first vote was overturned.
He Served as Lord Lieutenant of Roscommon in 1882.
He was Justice of the Peace for the counties of Sligo, Longford and Westmeath.
He published in the Freeman's Journal of the Irish National Land League Association. He was a member of the Arts Club from 1863 to 1888.
He served as Tory Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1886.
Marriage : 1861 to Annie Worsley, daughter of Sir William Worsley, 1st Baronet.
[edit] Quotes
"Keep the cartridge in the rifle." : advice to Orangemen angered at Gladstone's Representation of the People Act 1884 which would extend the Irish franchise. By then he had ceased to be a Home Ruler.
[edit] External Links
T M Healy Devices and Leaders of My Day. Chapter 15 Devices of Parliamentarians 1883-4
http://www.eiretek.org/chapters/books/THealy/healy15.htm
Brief Biography sourced from Kelly's London Postal Directory, London; Annual Register 1888, p. 152
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Harm_EK.htm
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