Anthony O'Flaherty explained

Anthony O'Flaherty
Office:	Member of Parliament for Galway Borough
Term Start:	2 August 1847
Term End:	13 July 1857
Predecessor:	James Henry Monahan Martin Joseph Blake
Successor:	Ulick de Burgh John Orrell Lever
Alongside:	Ulick de Burgh (Apr. 1857–Jul. 1857) Martin Joseph Blake (1847–Apr. 1857)
Birth Date:	1800
Nationality:	Irish
Party:	Whig
Otherparty:	Independent Irish Party Repeal Association

Anthony O'Flaherty (1800 – 1866)^[1] was an Irish Whig, Independent Irish Party and Repeal Association politician.^[2]

O'Flaherty was first elected Repeal Association Member of Parliament (MP) for Galway Borough at the 1847 general election and—elected for the Independent Irish Party in 1852, and the Whigs in April 1857—held the seat until July 1857 when he was unseated due to bribery by his agents.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "G" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 24 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713200634/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Gcommons1.htm . 13 July 2011 . usurped . 13 September 2018 .
2. Book: Ollivier. John. Ollivier's parliamentary and political directory for the Session 1841, 1848, Volume 1. 1841. 27. Google Books.
3. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 978-0901714121. 282.
4. News: Imperial Parliament . The Ipswich Journal . 18 July 1857 . 4 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .