John James Bodkin ( – January 1882)
was an
Irish
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Common meanings
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** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
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Whig politician.
Bodkin was first elected Whig MP for at the
1831 general election, but stepped down at the next election in 1832. In 1835, he was returned for and then held this seat until 1847, when he did not seek re-election.
He lived at
Kilclooney
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,
County Galway
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, and was a
justice of the peace
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and a
deputy lieutenant.
His elder daughter Eliza Mary Bodkin (d.1902) was married to Lewis George Dive, of
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