Percy Dockrell Explained

Office:Teachta Dála
Term Start:October 1961
Term End:June 1977
Term Start1:May 1951
Term End1:March 1957
Constituency1:Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown
Party:Fine Gael
Birth Name:Henry Percy Dockrell
Birth Date:27 December 1914
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Death Place:Dublin, Ireland
Children:2
Father:Henry Morgan Dockrell

Henry Percy Dockrell (27 December 1914 – 22 November 1979) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served for twenty years as a Teachta Dála (TD).[1]

Dockrell first stood as a Fine Gael candidate for the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown constituency at the 1948 general election. He was unsuccessful, but was elected at the 1951 general election, and was re-elected at the 1954 general election. He was defeated at the 1957 general election, but regained his seat at the 1961 general election and was re-elected a further three times for the same constituency. The constituency was divided for the 1977 general election.[2] He stood as a candidate for Dún Laoghaire but was not elected.

His father Henry Morgan Dockrell and his brother Maurice E. Dockrell were also Fine Gael TDs. His grandfather Sir Maurice Dockrell had been a Unionist MP before independence. On 24 September 1942 he married Dorothy Wadsworth Brooks. Percy Dockrell's two sons, John H. Dockrell and William Dockrell,[3] [4] served as councillors on the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire, and in William's case on its successor Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Henry Percy Dockrell. Oireachtas Members Database. 21 August 2012.
  2. Web site: Henry Percy Dockrell. ElectionsIreland.org. 21 August 2012.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/19991009172720/http://www.dlrcoco.ie/CLLR.htm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council – Councillors – archived 9 October 1999
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20040302064617/http://www.dlrcoco.ie/cllrs/blrock.htm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council – Blackrock Councillors – archived 2 March 2004