Office: | Member of Parliament for County Kildare |
Term Start: | 1698 |
Term End: | 1699 |
Predecessor: | Robert FitzGerald George FitzGerald |
Alongside: | George FitzGerald |
Successor: | Thomas Keightley Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Bt |
Henry Colley | |
Residence: | Carbury Castle |
Nationality: | Irish |
Parents: | Dudley Colley Anne Warren |
Children: | Henry Colley (died 1723) Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington Anne Colley |
Henry Colley (1648–1719) was an Irish Member of Parliament.
Henry Colley, born in 1648, was the son of Dudley Colley, MP for Philipstown, and the former Anne Warren, daughter of Henry Warren.[1]
His paternal grandparents were the former Anne Peyton (the daughter of Sir Christopher Peyton) and Sir Henry Colley, who acquired substantial lands in County Wexford.
Colley was educated at Trinity College Dublin.[2]
Colley represented County Kildare from 1698 to 1699.
In 1705, Henry Colley erected a monument to his father Dudley which said that "Henry Colley, now living, son of Dudley Colley, married Mary Ussher, and had issue by her six sons and six daughters; whereof two sons, Henry and Richard, and six daughters, are now living. She was the only daughter of Sir William Ussher of Bridgefoot, Knt. by his Lady Ursula St. Barb, and lyeth here interred".[3] Sir William Ussher was MP for County Dublin, and Ursula St. Barbe was a daughter of Capt. George St. Barbe.[1] The children of Henry Colley and Mary Ussher included:
Colley, who lived at Carbury Castle, County Kildare, died in 1719.[6] His will was written on 18 June 1719 and proved on 27 July 1719.[7]