Charles Delafaye (1677 – 11 December 1762) was Member of the

Parliament of Ireland The Parliament of Ireland ( ga, Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until 1800. It was modelled on the Parliament of England and from 1537 comprised two chamb ...

for

Belturbet Belturbet (; ) is a town in County Cavan, Ireland. It lies on the N3 road, around north of Cavan town and from Dublin. It is also located around south of the border with Northern Ireland, between the counties of Cavan and Fermanagh, and fr ...

from 1715 to 1727 and Chief Secretary to the Earl of Galway and the Duke of Grafton who held joint Governorship. Delafaye shared his that role with

Martin Bladen Colonel Martin Bladen (1680–1746) was a British politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1727 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1746. He was a Commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations, a Privy Counc ...

. He was elected a

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in 1725. He was appointed a

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from 1728 to 1747. He died in 1762 at the age of 85 at his home in Wichbury, near Salisbury.

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1677 births 1762 deaths Chief Secretaries for Ireland Irish MPs 1715–1727 Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cavan constituencies Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub