Sir Timothy O'Brien, 1st Baronet (1787 – 3 December 1862) was an

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Whig,

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and

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politician, and merchant. He was the son of Timothy O'Brien and his wife (née Madden). In 1821, he married Catherine Murphy, daughter of Edward Murphy, and they had at least five children: Timothy (died 1869); John (died 1869); Kate (died 1894); Ellen (died 1899); and

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(1823–1895). In 1844, O'Brien was made

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, a position he again held in 1849. Simultaneously, he was a

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(MP), first elected as a Repeal Association member for Cashel at a by-election in 1846—caused by the resignation of Joseph Stock. Becoming an Independent Irish MP in 1852 and a Whig in 1857, he held the seat until the 1859 general election, when he did not seek re-election. In 1849, during

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's first visit to Ireland, O'Brien was made a baronet, becoming 1st baronet of Merrion Square and Boris-in-Ossory. Upon his own death in 1862, the baronetcy was inherited by his son, Patrick O'Brien. Outside of his political career, O'Brien was also a

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and a Deputy Lieutenant.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:OBrien, Timothy 1787 births 1862 deaths Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies Irish Repeal Association MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tipperary constituencies (1801–1922) Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Lord Mayors of Dublin Irish justices of the peace Deputy Lieutenants in Ireland UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 Irish knights