Gervase Parker Bushe (1744 – 13 August 1793) was an Irish landowner and MP. He was the son of Amyas Bushe of Dublin and his wife Elizabeth Parker. He was educated at

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(where he matriculated in 1763) and at

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(where he graduated BA, LLB and LLD). He became a lawyer and lived at Kilfane in County Kilkenny. He served as an MP in the

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for

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from 1767 to 1776, for

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from 1778 to 1783, for Fore from 1783 to 1790 and for Lanesborough from 1790 to 1793. He was appointed

High Sheriff of County Kilkenny The High Sheriff of County Kilkenny was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Kilkenny, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Kilkenny County S ...

for 1768-69.A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke He was a member of the

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. In a paper presented to the Academy in 1789 he calculated the population of Ireland as approximately 4 million. He died in August 1793 at Kilfane. He had married Mary Grattan, the daughter of James Grattan, the

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and MP for Dublin City and the sister of

Henry Grattan Henry Grattan (3 July 1746 – 4 June 1820) was an Irish politician and lawyer who campaigned for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century from Britain. He was a Member of the Irish Parliament (MP) from 1775 to 18 ...

, the anti-union MP. They had 10 children.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bushe, Gervase Parker 1744 births 1793 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 18th-century Anglo-Irish people 18th-century Irish lawyers Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 High Sheriffs of County Kilkenny Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies Members of the Royal Irish Academy