Michael Dunne (MP) explained

Michael Dunne
Office:Member of Parliament
for Queen's County
Term Start:19 July 1852
Term End:22 July 1865
Predecessor:John FitzPatrick
Thomas Vesey
Successor:John FitzPatrick
Francis Plunkett Dunne
Alongside:Francis Plunkett Dunne (18591865)
Charles Coote (18521859)
Birth Date:1800
Nationality:Irish
Party:Liberal/Whig
Otherparty:Independent Irish

Michael Dunne (1800 – 20 September 1876)[1] was an Irish Liberal, Whig and Independent Irish Party politician.

He was a farmer and lived in Ballymanus, Stradbally, Queen's County, a house and land the family rented from the Grattans. Michael's son William Dunne (1843-1915) was a racehorse trainer and bred two consecutive Irish Derby winners (Soulouque in 1879 and King of the Bees in 1880) and Cortolvin who went on to win the 1867 Grand National.

Michael was a Justice of the Peace.

Dunne became an Independent Irish Party MP for Queen's County at the 1852 general election and, standing as a Whig in 1857 and a Liberal in 1859, held the seat until 1865 when he did not seek re-election.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "Q" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 7 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181007222459/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Qcommons.htm . 7 October 2018 . usurped . 13 June 2017 .
  2. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 978-0901714121. 309.