George Ogle

George Ogle (14 October 1742 – 10 August 1814) was an Irish Tory politician.

Ogle was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland from 17 October 1783. He represented Wexford County in the Irish House of Commons from 1769 to 1797, when he refused to stand again. The Hobart's Relief Bill of 1793 had allowed Catholics who owned free-holdings of at least 40 shillings of annual rental value to vote and Ogle was staunchly against Catholic Emancipation. In 1798, Ogle returned to parliament, where he represented Dublin City until the Act of Union in 1801.

In the following Parliament of the United Kingdom he retained his seat for Dublin City and sat as Member of Parliament without a fresh election. In the general election of 1802 Ogle lost his seat to Whig candidate John La Touche.

References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Whelan, Kevin. “Politicisation in County Wexford and the Origins of the 1798 Rebellion” in Ireland and the French Revolution, edited by Hugh Gough and David Dickson, 156-178. Dublin: Irish Academy, 1990.