Henry Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Dunleath
Office:Member of Parliament for Londonderry North
Term Start:1885
Term End:1895
Predecessor:New constituency
Successor:John Atkinson
Birth Name:Henry Lyle Mulholland
Birth Date:30 January 1854
Party:Conservative
Parents:John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath
Frances Louisa Lyle
Children:5
Relations:Charles Mulholland, 4th Baron Dunleath (grandson)
Monica Wichfeld (granddaughter)
Andrew Mulholland (grandfather)

Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath (30 January 1854 – 22 March 1931), was an Irish Conservative Member of Parliament.

Early life

Dunleath was the second son of John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath and the former Frances Louisa Lyle (d. 1909). His older brother was the Hon. Andrew Walter Mulholland, who died without issue at age 24 in 1877. His younger siblings included Hon. Alfred John Mulholland (who married Mabel Charlotte Saunderson); Hon. Alice Elizabeth Mulholland (wife of John George Beresford Massy-Beresford and mother to Monica Wichfeld); Hon. Helen Mulholland (wife of Sir George Herbert Murray); and Hon. Louisa Frances Mulholland (wife of Edward Roger Murray Pratt).

His mother was a daughter of Harriet Cromie (a daughter of John Cromie) and Hugh Lyle of Knocktarna in County Londonderry. His father was the eldest son of the former Elizabeth MacDonnell (a daughter of Thomas MacDonnell of Belfast) and Lord Mayor of Belfast Andrew Mulholland of Ballywalter Park. The Mulholland family were prominent in the cotton and linen industry in Ireland.

Career

He served as High Sheriff of Down in 1884. The following year, he was returned to the British House of Commons for Londonderry North, a seat he held until the 1895 general election. Later that year, he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords.

Personal life

In 1881, Lord Dunleath was married to Norah Louisa Fanny Ward, the only surviving daughter of Hon. Somerset Richard Hamilton Augustus Ward (fifth son of Edward Ward, 3rd Viscount Bangor), by his wife Norah Mary Elizabeth Hill (only daughter of Lord George Hill, fifth son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire). Together, they were the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter, including:[1]

Lord Dunleath died on 22 March 1931, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son Charles. Lady Dunleath died in 1935.[5]

Descendants

Through his second son, he was a grandfather of Charles Mulholland, 4th Baron Dunleath (1933–1993).[6]

Sailing

He inherited the schooner Egeria from his father, and had the Charles E Nicholson designed 4 ton lugger Wolfhound built for him at Camper and Nicholsons, Gosport in 1893.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dunleath, Baron (UK, 1892) . cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 28 May 2020.
  2. Web site: Mulholland, The Hon. Andrew Edward Somerset North Down & Ards War Dead . barryniblock.co.uk . 28 May 2020.
  3. Web site: Cavan, Earl of (I, 1647) . cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 28 May 2020.
  4. "The Hon Mrs J. Mulholland", The Times, 4 August 1984, p. 8.
  5. Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  6. News: Wylie . Lorraine . At home with Lady Dunleath in Ballywalter Park . 28 May 2020 . . 22 September 2018.
  7. Web site: Dunleath, Lord . The Bartlett Maritime Research Centre . 4 September 2022.