Sir Hugh Dillon Massy, 1st Baronet (1740 – 29 April 1807) was an

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politician. Massy was the son of the Very Reverend Charles Massy,

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. He was first elected to the

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as the Member of Parliament for

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in May 1761, but was not returned for the seat in the second vote of that year. He stood in

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in 1776, but was declared "not duly elected" and replaced by Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet. On 9 March 1782, Massy was made a

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, of Donass in the County of Clare, in the

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. He was elected as the MP for Clare in 1783 and held the seat until 1790.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.106 (Retrieved 24 February 2016).

Marriage

He married Elizabeth Stacpoole, daughter of George John Baptista Stacpoole and Mary Massy, on 16 August 1766. He was a

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Hugh Massy, 1st Baron Massy Hugh Massy, 1st Baron Massy (1700 – 30 January 1788) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Massy was the son of Colonel Hugh Massy and the elder brother of General Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina. He married firstly Mary Dawson, daughter of C ...

and Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina.

References

Year of birth unknown 1807 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Clare constituencies Year of birth uncertain {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub