Rowland Blennerhassett (Irish politician)

For other people named Rowland Blennerhassett, see Rowland Blennerhassett (disambiguation).

Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett KC, JP (22 July 1850 – 7 April 1913)^[1] was an Irish politician.

He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.^[2] Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church College, Oxford.^[3] In a by-election in 1872, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kerry until 1885.^[1] Blennerhassett was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878,^[3] and became later a bencher and a King's Counsel.^[2] He was a Justice of the Peace for Kerry.^[3]

On 21 September 1876, he married Mary Beatrice Armstrong, youngest daughter of Walter Armstrong.^[4] They had one son.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Kerry". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
^ ^a ^b "ThePeerage - Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett". http://www.thepeerage.com/p16778.htm#i167776. Retrieved 19 March 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c Debrett, John (1881). Robert Henry Mair. ed. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. pp. 20.
^ ^a ^b Burke, Bernhard (1912). Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. ed. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Arthur Herbert Viscount Castlerosse	Member of Parliament for Kerry 1872 – 1885 With: Henry Arthur Herbert 1872–1880 Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Bt 1880–1885	Constituency abolished

Persondata
Name	Blennerhassett, Rowland Ponsonby
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	22 July 1850
Place of birth
Date of death	7 April 1913
Place of death