Edmund Francis Vesey Knox (23 January 1865 – 15 May 1921)
was an
Irish nationalist politician. Initially a member of the
Irish Parliamentary Party, he sided with the Anti-Parnellite
Irish National Federation majority when the party split in 1891.
He was elected as
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
West Cavan at an unopposed by-election on 26 March 1890, following the death of the nationalist MP
Joseph Biggar,
taking his seat in the
House of Commons of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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.
He was re-elected as an
Irish National Federation MP at the
1892 general election, with a majority of more than three-to-one over his sole opponent, a
Unionist.
[Walker, op. cit, page 144] At the
1895 election he was again returned unopposed in West Cavan,
[Walker, op. cit., pages 151, 154] but also stood in
Londonderry City, winning that seat by a slender majority over his unionist opponent. He chose to sit for Londonderry City,
and held that seat until he
resigned from Parliament on 9 December 1898 by becoming
Steward of the Manor of Northstead.
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1865 births
1921 deaths
UK MPs 1886–1892
UK MPs 1892–1895
UK MPs 1895–1900
Irish Parliamentary Party MPs
Anti-Parnellite MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cavan constituencies (1801–1922)
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Londonderry constituencies (1801–1922)
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