Mervyn Archdall ( – 18 June 1813) of

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, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and Trilleck, County Tyrone was a British High Sheriff and

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. He was born the only son of Nicholas Archdall (formerly Montgomery) of Derrygonnelly, County Fermanagh and his first wife Angel, the daughter and heiress of William Archdall of Castle Archdall. He was educated at

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and studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London. He succeeded his mother in 1745 and his father in 1763. He was

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in 1756 and served as a member of the

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for

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from 1761 to 1800. He was

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for 1773 to 1774. After the Acts of Union he was a co-opted MP in the first

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for

from 1801 to 1802, after which he handed the seat to his son and heir, Mervyn Archdall (junior). He married in 1762 the Hon. Mary Dawson, daughter of William Henry, 1st Viscount Carlow, and with her had four sons and eight daughters. In 1773 to 1778 he rebuilt

, which had been burned in the uprising of 1689 to 1690.

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Dawson-Damer family