Sir Nugent Talbot Everard, 1st Baronet (24 October 1849 – 12 July 1929) was an Irish senator nominated to the 1922

Seanad Éireann Seanad Éireann (, ; "Senate of Ireland") is the upper house of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (the lower house). It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its memb ...

. He was born 24 October 1849 in

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shire, England, the eldest son of Captain Richard Nugent Everard, officer in the British army, and his wife Barbara Everard (née O'Reilly) of Ballinlough Castle,

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. He was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

and

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(MA 1875). In 1863, at the age of 13, he had inherited the family estate in Ireland at Randlestown, near

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. About 1870 he settled at Randlestown. He took up farming on the estate, at that time containing 2,311 acres. In the general election of 1892 he stood as unionist candidate in the West Cavan constituency, but was not elected. In 1902 he was one of the landlord representatives during the 1902

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. He was a

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in the

Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot and the 109th Regiment of Foot ...

regiment of the

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, and was granted the honorary rank of

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on 2 August 1902. He was also

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(for 1883) and

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. He was a member of

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from 1900 to 1920. In recognition of his involvement in public life, he was created a baronet on 30 June 1911, on the occasion of the coronation of King

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. In 1917 and 1918 he was a participant in the

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, and in 1920 he took part in peace negotiations in Dublin. In 1921 his efforts for the benefit of the public cause were recognised again when he was appointed by the lord lieutenant as a member of the newly created

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. At the formal opening of the short-lived Southern Irish parliament he presided in the absence of the lord chancellor,

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. In 1922, Everard was nominated by the President of the Executive Council and sat as an independent member. He was defeated at the 1928 Seanad election but was re-elected at a by-election on 10 April 1929 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Sears. He died in office in July 1929. The by-election for his seat was won by Richard A. Butler.

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