Nicholas Valentine Maher (died 18 October 1851) was an

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Repeal Association The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to th ...

politician. He was the son of Thomas Maher, a medical practitioner, and his wife Margaret. In 1845, he married Margaret Jane Herbert, the daughter of Walter Otway Herbert and Mary Miles. Maher was first elected Repeal Association MP for at a by-election in 1844—caused by the death of his cousin,

Valentine Maher Valentine Maher (17 May 1780 – January 1844) was an Irish Whig politician. Maher was first elected Whig MP for at the 1841 general election and held the seat until his death in 1844, when his cousin Nicholas Maher took over the seat. He ...

—and held the seat until his own death in 1851. He was also a member of the

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* UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tipperary constituencies (1801–1922) Irish Repeal Association MPs 1851 deaths {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub