Matthew Minch Explained

Matthew Joseph Minch (1857 – 5 June 1921) was an brewer and Irish nationalist politician from County Kildare who sat in the United Kingdom House of Commons as member of parliament (MP) for South Kildare from 1892 to 1903.[1]

Minch was first elected at the 1892 general election as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate, unseating the sitting Parnellite MP James Leahy.[2] He was re-elected unopposed in 1895[3] and also in 1900, on the latter occasion as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate,[4] since the split in the party had been resolved earlier that year. He resigned his seat on 12 May 1903, by the procedural device of taking the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead.[5]

Minch was also one of the first councillors elected to Kildare County Council, when it was created in 1899.[6] [7] [8]

Minch was married twice. With his first wife Agnes he had five sons, including:[9]

With his second wife Elizabeth O'Kelly he had two sons and one daughter.[9]

He died at his residence, Rockfield House, Athy, County Kildare, in 1921.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "K", part 1 . Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages . 5 December 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20150625233627/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm . 25 June 2015 .
  2. Book: Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922 . Brian M. Walker . Royal Irish Academy . Dublin . 1978 . 0-901714-12-7 . 147.
  3. Walker, op. cit., page 154
  4. Walker, op. cit, page 161
  5. Web site: Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 . Department of Information Services . . 9 June 2009 . 30 November 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100615142225/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf . 15 June 2010 .
  6. Web site: Minutes Of Centenary Meeting Of The Council Held On 22nd April, 1999 At St. Mary's, Naas . Kildare County Council . 5 December 2009.
  7. News: Centenary meeting of Kildare County Council held yesterday . 23 April 1999 . Kildare Net News . 5 December 2009.
  8. Web site: Centenary of Kildare County Council . 30 April 1999 . . 5 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629111418/http://archives.tcm.ie/kildarenationalist/1999/04/30/story12210.asp . 29 June 2011 . dead .
  9. Web site: Coleman . Marie . Minch, Sydney Basil . Dictionary of Irish Biography . Cambridge University Press . 9 September 2020.
  10. Book: McCrery . Nigel . Rowe . Michael . Final Scrum: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War . Pen and Sword . 978-1-4738-9452-5 . https://books.google.com/books?id=aQPMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT152 . en . John Berchmans Minch, 08-11-42. 28 February 2018 .
  11. News: Obituary: Captain W.J. Minch . 9 September 2020 . The Nationalist and Leinster Times . 9 April 1927 . kildare.ie.

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