Thomas Curran (1840 – 13 August 1913) was an
Irish nationalist politician from
County Donegal
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who served as an
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for the Anti-Parnellite
Irish National Federation in the
United Kingdom House of Commons
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.
He was elected as MP for the
South Sligo at the
1892 general election, and held the seat until the
1900 general election. His son
Thomas Bartholomew Curran (1870–1929) sat in
Parliament
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for the same period, as MP first for
Kilkenny City
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Kilkenn ...
and then for
North Donegal.
Both father and son owed their election to the
Irish National Federation to whom Thomas senior made an unsecured loan of £10,000 to fund their campaign in the
1892 general election. According to Tim Healy:
[Letters and Leaders of My Day, T. M. Healy, K. C., ]Thornton Butterworth
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, Ltd. 15 Bedford Street, London, W.C.
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1840 births
1913 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Sligo constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1892–1895
UK MPs 1895–1900
Anti-Parnellite MPs
Politicians from County Donegal
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