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Henry Bruen (other)
Henry Bruen may refer to: * Henry Bruen (1741–1795) Henry Bruen (1741 – 14 December 1795) was an Irish politician. In the pre- Act of Union Parliament of Ireland, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Jamestown from 1783 to 1790, and then for County Carlow from 1790 until his death in 1795. Fa ..., Irish politician, Member of the Parliament of Ireland for Jamestown 1783–1790 and Carlow County 1790–1795 * Henry Bruen (1789–1852), Irish politician, Member of the UK Parliament for County Carlow 1812–1831, 1835–1837, 1840–1852 * Henry Bruen (1828–1912), his son, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880 See also * Bruen (surname) {{hndis, name=Bruen, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruen (1741–1795)
Henry Bruen (1741 – 14 December 1795) was an Irish politician. In the pre- Act of Union Parliament of Ireland, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Jamestown from 1783 to 1790, and then for County Carlow from 1790 until his death in 1795. Family Henry was the second son of Moses Bruen (died 1757), from Boyle, County Roscommon. He married Dorothea Henrietta Knox, daughter of Francis Knox, in 1787. They had three sons and three daughters: their eldest son Henry (1789–1852), was an MP for County Carlow for most of the period from 1812 to 1852, and their youngest child Francis was MP for the borough of Carlow in the 1830s. Henry's son Henry Bruen (1828–1912), was MP for County Carlow from 1857 to 1880. From 1775 until 1957, the family lived in Oak Park estate, near Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruen (1789–1852)
Colonel Henry Bruen (3 October 1789 – 5 November 1852) was an Irish Tory Party (and later Conservative Party) politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlow County for a total of about 36 years, in three separate periods between 1812 and 1852, taking his seat in the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Life Henry was the son of Henry Bruen (1741–1795), and Dorothea Henrietta Knox. His father originally came from Boyle, County Roscommon, but had moved in 1775 to Oak Park estate, near Carlow town. The estate was inherited by Henry, and remained in the family until 1957. Bruen was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a colonel in the Carlow militia in 1816. In 1795, Bruen inherited the family estate of Oak Park. In 1828, Colonel Bruen supplied granite used in the construction of the Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow from his quarry in Graiguenaspidogue a few kilometres south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bruen (1828–1912)
Henry Bruen PC, DL (16 June 1828 – 8 March 1912) was an Irish Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlow County from 1857 to 1880, taking his seat in the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was the third (and last) in a line of Henry Bruens to represent County Carlow. Bruen was elected unopposed at 1857 general election, taking a seat previously held by his father Henry Bruen (1789–1852). He was returned unopposed at the next the general elections, but at the 1880 general election, Carlow's two Conservative MPs were both defeated by Home Rule League candidates. On 26 April 1880, shortly after his electoral defeat, he was sworn as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. In addition to his Parliamentary seat, Bruen held a number of other appointments. He was High Sheriff of Carlow in 1855, and High Sheriff of Wexford in 1883, and was at some unspecified time a Justice of the Peace in bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |