John Morrogh (1849 - 4 October 1901) was an Irish businessman and politician.
Educated at the
Christian Brothers' Schools, Cork, he was involved in the working of the
Kimberley
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Australia
* Kimberley (Western Australia)
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley
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diamond mines and became a director of
De Beers Consolidated Mines. Making a lot of money in South Africa at the end of the 1860s, he returned to Ireland about 1887 and was proprietor of a woollen manufacturing company, Morrogh Brothers and Co., in Cork.
['Obituary', ''The Times'', 5 Oct 1901]
In a by-election in 1889, he was elected MP for
South East Cork, and remained as member for the constituency until resigning in 1893.
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1849 births
1901 deaths
Irish Parliamentary Party MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cork constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1886–1892
UK MPs 1892–1895
Anti-Parnellite MPs