Brockhill Newburgh Explained

Colonel Brockhill Newburgh ( - 11 January 1741) was an Irish politician.

He was the second son of Thomas Newburgh and his wife Mary, the daughter of Brockhill Taylor, M.P, of Ballyhaise, who had represented Cavan Borough in the Irish House of Commons. He inherited the estate of Ballyhaise in 1697[1] on the death of his elder brother. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cavan for 1704.

From 1715 until 1727, Newburgh sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for County Cavan. He was chairman of the Linen Board. He built Ballyhaise House, and did much to improve the village of Ballyhaise, erecting the first stone bridge there.

He married Maria, the daughter of Oliver More of Salestown, Co. Kildare, and died on 11 January 1741/2, leaving four sons and two daughters. His eldest son and heir was the poet Thomas Newburgh, publisher of Essays, Poetical, Moral, &c., 1769, a work that perhaps contains notes from, and is sometimes attributed to, Brockhill Newburgh.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=7DZFAAAAYAAJ&dq=cavan+%22brockhill+taylor%22&pg=PA367 page 369
  2. Book: Carpenter, Andrew. Verse in English from eighteenth-century Ireland. https://books.google.com/books?id=Bzj1xRO1RPAC&pg=PA319. 18 November 2010. 1998. Cork University Press. 978-1-85918-104-1. 319. Thomas Newburgh.
  3. Web site: Notes and queries.
  4. Web site: Particulars relating to the life and character of the late B. Newburgh. 1761.