Peter La Touche (c. 1775 – 11 February 1830) was a landowner and Irish

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. The La Touche family were

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originally from France and settled in Ireland after the revocation of the

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which deprived the French Protestants of all religious and civil liberties, leading to largescale emigration. He was the son of David La Touche MP, of Marlay, County Dublin and 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 ...

(1786–1791) and

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

He succeeded his uncle Peter Latouche, MP, to

Bellevue House, County Wicklow Bellevue House was an 18th-century country house set in its own 300 acre (120 ha) demesne, in the village of Delgany, County Wicklow. It is 25 km (16 miles) south of the Dublin. The house was built on an estate originally called Ballydonagh, af ...

in 1828. He became a

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for

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1802–1806. He married the Hon. Charlotte Maude, daughter of Cornwallis, 1st Viscount Hawarden, with whom he had nine sons and five daughters. He was succeeded in turn by his sons Peter David and William Robert. Peter and his brother John were governors of the Female Orphanage

Kirwan House Kirwan House or The Female Orphan House was a Church of Ireland-run female orphanage initially at 42 Prussia Street (1790-93), next on Dublin's North Circular Road (1793-1959) and latterly at 134 Sandford Road in Ranelagh (1959-87). Since 19 ...

on Dublin's North Circular Road.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:La Touche, Peter 1770s births 1830 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Leitrim constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1802–1806 People from County Wicklow