Broderick Chinnery
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Sir Broderick Chinnery, 1st Baronet (13 February 1742 – May 1808) was an
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politician and baronet. He was the fourth son of Reverend George Chinnery and his wife Eleanor Whitfield, daughter of William Whitfield. Chinnery was barrister and became
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in 1786. He sat as
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for
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from 1783 to 1790. Subsequently he represented Bandonbridge in the
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until the Act of Union in 1801 and thereafter Bandon in the
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until 1806. On 29 August 1799, Chinnery was created a Baronet, of Flintfield, in the County of Cork. In February 1768, he married firstly his second cousin Margaret Chinnery, daughter of Nicholas Chinnery. They had three daughters and three sons. Margaret died in 1783, and Chinnery married secondly Alice Ball, fourth daughter of Robert Ball on 2 July 1789. He had two sons and two daughters by his second wife. Chinnery was succeeded in the baronetcy by Broderick, his eldest and only surviving son of his first marriage.


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