Edmund Gerald Dease (6 September 1829 – 17 July 1904) was an

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and

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politician. He was elected

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(MP) for Queen's County at a by-election in 1870 as a Liberal candidate, and won the seat again in 1874 as a Home Rule candidate. He then held the seat until he stood down in 1880. Dease was educated at

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where he achieved a

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. Throughout his life, he was also a Deputy Lieutenant,

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, Commissioner of National Education, and member of the senate at

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. His daughter was the Irish language prayer collector

Charlotte Dease Charlotte Dease (20 July 1873 – 5 May 1953), was a collector of old Irish prayers who also wrote and translated books on the saints. Biography Charlotte Dease was born the middle of five children to Edmund Gerald Dease and Mary Grattan on 20 ...

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* UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 1829 births 1904 deaths Home Rule League MPs Irish Liberal Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Queen's County constituencies (1801–1922) {{Liberal-UK-MP-stub