Nicholas Maher Explained

Nicholas Maher
Office:Member of Parliament
for
Term Start:10 February 1844
Term End:18 October 1851
Predecessor:Robert Otway-Cave
Valentine Maher
Successor:Francis Scully
James Sadleir
Alongside:Robert Otway-Cave (1844–1845)
Richard Albert Fitzgerald (1845–1847)
Francis Scully (1847–1851)
Death Date:18 October 1851
Nationality:Irish
Party:Repeal Association

Nicholas Valentine Maher (died 18 October 1851)[1] was an Irish Repeal Association politician.[2] [3]

He was the son of Thomas Maher, a medical practitioner, and his wife Margaret. In 1845, he married Margaret Jane Herbert, the daughter of Walter Otway Herbert and Mary Miles.[2] [4]

Maher was first elected Repeal Association MP for at a by-election in 1844—caused by the death of his cousin, Valentine Maher—and held the seat until his own death in 1851.[2] [5]

He was also a member of the Reform Club.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "T" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 25 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20180903033741/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Tcommons1.htm. 3 September 2018 . usurped . 7 September 2017 .
  2. Web site: Nicholas Maher . Members of Parliament after 1832 . History of Parliament . 25 August 2019.
  3. Book: Walford . Edward . The county families of the United Kingdom . 1860 . Robert Hardwicke . London . 778 . 9785871943618 . . 25 August 2019.
  4. Web site: Lundy . Darryl . Nicholas Valentine Maher . The Peerage . 25 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190825192947/http://www.thepeerage.com/p62454.htm . 25 August 2019 . live. 15 August 2013.
  5. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 0901714127.