William Archer Redmond (1825-1880)

William Archer Redmond sat for Wexford as a member of the Home Rule Party led by Isaac Butt from 1872 to 1880.

Redmond was the son of Patrick Redmond (deputy lieutenant for County Wexford) and Esther Kearney of Rocklands,County Wexford. He was the nephew of John Edward Redmond (1806-1865) who had sat for the same seat as a Liberal and who is commemorated in Redmond Square in Wexford. He was educated at Stonyhurst and Trinity College Dublin. He was married to Mary Hoey, of Protestant stock from County Wicklow. His home was at Ballytrent near the Tuskar Rock lighthouse.

William Archer Redmond was the father of John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and of William Hoey Kearney Redmond and the grandfather of the identically named William Archer Redmond who was both an MP and a TD during his political career.