Broderick Chinnery Explained

Sir Broderick Chinnery, 1st Baronet (13 February 1742 – May 1808),[1] was an Irish politician and baronet.

He was the fourth son of Reverend George Chinnery and his wife Eleanor Whitfield, daughter of William Whitfield.[2] Chinnery was barrister and became High Sheriff of County Cork in 1786.[3] He sat as Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr from 1783 to 1790.[4] Subsequently he represented Bandonbridge in the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union in 1801[4] and thereafter Bandon in the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1806.[5] On 29 August 1799, Chinnery was created a Baronet, of Flintfield, in the County of Cork.[1] In February 1768, he married firstly his second cousin Margaret Chinnery, daughter of Nicholas Chinnery.[3] They had three daughters and three sons.[3] Margaret died in 1783, and Chinnery married secondly Alice Ball, fourth daughter of Robert Ball on 2 July 1789.[3] He had two sons and two daughters by his second wife.[6] Chinnery was succeeded in the baronetcy by Broderick, his eldest and only surviving son of his first marriage.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Leigh Rayment - Baronetage . https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224824/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC2.htm . 1 May 2008 . usurped . 1 April 2009 .
  2. Book: O'Laughlin, Michael C. . Irish Roots Cafe . 2nd . Families of County Cork, Ireland, from the Earliest Times to the 20th Century . IV . 1999 . London . 47 .
  3. Web site: ThePeerage - Sir Broderick Chinnery, 1st Bt . 2 April 2009 .
  4. Web site: Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 . 1 April 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm . 1 June 2009 .
  5. Web site: Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Bandon . 1 April 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20131117190415/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons1.htm . 17 November 2013 .
  6. Book: Burke, John . A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire . Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley . London . I . 4th . 1832 . 241 .