Francis Aldborough Prittie (4 June 1779 – 8 March 1853) was an Irish

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in the

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. He was the second son of

Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley (3 October 1743 – 3 January 1801) was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. Prittie was the son of Henry Prittie of Kilboy, County Tipperary. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Banagher in 1767 ...

, an Irish peer and MP in the

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. His elder brother was

Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley (3 March 1775 – 19 October 1854) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Dunalley was the son of Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley, by Catherine Sadleir, daughter of Francis Sadleir and widow of John Bury. Charles Bury, ...

. Francis entered

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in 1795. After serving for

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in the Parliament of Ireland in 1800, he was elected MP in the

for

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shortly after the Act of Union, but resigned after three months to take the

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. He was later elected for

County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...

, sitting from 1806 to 1818 and 1819 to 1831. He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Tipperary in 1807, a sinecure normally held for life. He was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary for 1838–39. He died in 1853 aged 73. He had married twice; firstly to Martha, daughter of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, Tipperary and the widow of George Hartpole of Shrule Castle, Queen's County, with whom he had a daughter and secondly Elizabeth, the daughter of

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of Corville, Tipperary, with whom he had 3 sons and 3 more daughters. His eldest son, Henry, inherited the family barony to become the 3rd Baron Dunalley.

References

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