Randall Edward Plunkett, 15th Baron Dunsany (5 September 1804 – 7 April 1852) was an

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peer and

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politician. Plunkett was the son of

Edward Plunkett, 14th Baron Dunsany Edward Wadding Plunkett, 14th Baron Dunsany (7 April 1773 – 11 December 1848) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the son of Randall Plunkett, 13th Baron of Dunsany, and Margaret Mandeville, and he inherited his father's title of Baron of Dunsany ...

and his first wife, Hon. Charlotte Louisa Lawless. On 29 June 1835, he was declared elected on petition as the

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for

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, after his opponent Andrew O'Dwyer had been deemed ineligible. He represented the seat as a Conservative until 1837. On 11 December 1848, he inherited his father's title, becoming

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. In 1850 Dunsany was elected as a

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for Ireland and took his seat in the

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. On 29 December 1838, he married Elizabeth Evelyn. Dunsany was succeeded in his title by his younger brother, Edward.'Dunsany, Baron (Plunkett)'
''Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland''
(Bosworth, 1865), p.137.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunsany, Randall Plunkett, 15th Baron of 1804 births 1852 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Irish Conservative Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Louth constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1835–1837 Barons of Dunsany