Sydney Minch | |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | July 1937 |
Term End: | June 1938 |
Constituency: | Carlow–Kildare |
Term Start1: | February 1932 |
Term End1: | July 1937 |
Constituency1: | Kildare |
Nationality: | Irish |
Birth Date: | 14 June 1893 |
Birth Place: | Athy, County Kildare, Ireland |
Death Place: | County Kildare, Ireland |
Party: | Fine Gael |
Otherparty: | Cumann na nGaedheal |
Spouse: | Cynthia Balfe |
Children: | 5 |
Father: | Matthew Minch |
Branch: | British Army |
Rank: | Captain |
Unit: | 16th (Irish) Division |
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Sydney Basil Minch (14 June 1893 – 25 March 1970) was an Irish politician, army officer and brewer.[1]
He was born 14 June 1893 in Rockfield, Athy, County Kildare, one of five sons of Matthew Minch, nationalist and anti-Parnellite MP for Kildare South, and Agnes Minch (née Hayden).[1]
He was educated at the Dominican convent, Wicklow; Belvedere College, Dublin and Clongowes Wood College. He fought with the 16th (Irish) Division at the Third Battle of Ypres during World War I, achieving the rank of captain.[2]
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare constituency at the 1932 general election.[3] He was re-elected at the 1933 general election.[4] At the 1937 general election, he was elected as a Fine Gael TD for the Carlow–Kildare constituency. He lost his seat at the 1938 general election. A prominent figure in the Blueshirts, he was the first TD to wear a symbolic blue shirt in Dáil Éireann on 27 September 1933, but was opposed to the fascistic tendencies of the organisation.[1]
On leaving politics he became a director of the family malt firm, Minch, Norton & Co.[1]