Matthew Joseph Minch (1857 – 5 June 1921) was an brewer and Irish nationalist politician from

County Kildare County Kildare ( ga, Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county, ...

who sat in the United Kingdom House of Commons as member of parliament (MP) for South Kildare from 1892 to 1903. Minch was first elected at the 1892 general election as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate, unseating the sitting Parnellite MP

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. He was re-elected unopposed in

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and also in

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

, on the latter occasion as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate, since the split in the party had been resolved earlier that year. He resigned his seat on 12 May 1903, by the procedural device of taking the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead. Minch was also one of the first councillors elected to Kildare County Council, when it was created in 1899. Minch was married twice. With his first wife Agnes he had five sons, including: * John Berchmans Minch (1890–1942) – an Irish rugby international killed in Second World War serving in the

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. * Sydney Minch (1893–1970) – a Teachta Dála for Fine Gael in the 1930s. * William J. Minch (1894/95–1927) – health broken while serving in the Connaught Rangers in the First World War. With his second wife Elizabeth O'Kelly he had two sons and one daughter. He died at his residence, Rockfield House,

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, in 1921.

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* 1857 births 1921 deaths Politicians from County Kildare UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Kildare constituencies (1801–1922) Anti-Parnellite MPs Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Local councillors in County Kildare {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub