Richard Dane Explained

Richard Martin Dane (4 December 1852 – 22 March 1903)[1] was an Irish Unionist politician who later became a judge.

He was elected at the 1892 general election as Member of Parliament for North Fermanagh, winning the seat which had been held until the election by the Nationalist MP Willie Redmond.[2] Redmond had sided with the Parnellite minority when the Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1891, and in 1892 he won a seat in East Clare; Dane's victory in North Fermanagh over an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate made him the first in a series of Unionists who represented the constituency until its abolition in 1918.

Dane was re-elected in 1895, defeating an independent Liberal candidate, and held the seat until he left the House of Commons in 1898 to become a county court judge.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "F" . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231350/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Fcommons.htm . 10 August 2009 . Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages . usurped . 15 December 2009.
  2. Book: Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922 . Brian M. Walker . Royal Irish Academy . Dublin . 1978 . 0-901714-12-7 . 349.