Henry Bruen (1741 – 14 December 1795) was an

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politician. In the pre- Act of Union

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, he was

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(MP) for Jamestown from 1783 to 1790, and then for

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from 1790 until his death in 1795.

Family

Henry was the second son of Moses Bruen (died 1757), from

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. He married Dorothea Henrietta Knox, daughter of Francis Knox, in 1787. They had three sons and three daughters: their eldest son

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(1789–1852), was an MP for

for most of the period from 1812 to 1852, and their youngest child

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was MP for the borough of

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in the 1830s. Henry's son Henry Bruen (1828–1912), was MP for County Carlow from 1857 to 1880. From 1775 until 1957, the family lived in Oak Park estate, near

town.

References

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