Robert Torrens O'Neill

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. (April 2008)
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

Hon. Robert Torrens O'Neill DL JP (10 January 1845-25 July 1910), was a Irish Unionist politician.

O'Neill was the third son of William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill, and his first wife, Henrietta, daughter of Hon. Robert Torrens, a Judge of the Common Pleas in Ireland. He was educated at Harrow School and at Brasenose College, Oxford and served as a Major in the 4th Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was elected as Conservative, and later Irish Unionist Member of Parliament for Antrim Mid in 1885, having unsuccessfully contested the Antrim constituency earlier in the year. He held this seat until his death in 1910, and was succeeded as MP by his nephew Arthur O'Neill. He was also a Justice of the Peace for County Antrim, and Deputy Lieutenant for County Londonderry, and was High Sheriff in 1871. O'Neill never married.