William Goulding (15 November 1817 – 8 December 1884) was an

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politician from

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. He was a

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(MP) from 1876 to 1880. At the general election in February 1874, he was stood unsuccessfully as a candidate in

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, where both seats were won by nationalist

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candidates. After the

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MP Joseph Ronayne died in May 1876, the nationalist vote at the resulting by-election was split between two candidates for the single seat, and Goulding won the seat in the

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. However, at the 1880 general election, nationalists fielded only two candidates for Cork's two seats, and Goulding was defeated. He stood again at the

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in February 1884 after the

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of John Daly, but was defeated again. Two Conservatives candidates contested Cork City at the 1885 general election, and one Unionist candidate stood at the by-election in 1891, but Goulding was the last Conservative or Unionist to be elected as MP for Cork City.Walker, op. cit., pages 334–335 After his death in 1884, a stained glass window representing the Good Shepherd was erected to his memory on the east wall of Taney parish church in Dundrum, County Dublin.

Descendants

His son William Goulding (1856–1925), a prominent freemason who was director of several railway companies in Ireland, was made a

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in 1904. The 3rd Baronet, Basil Goulding, was a notable art collector and the husband of Valerie Goulding, an Irish senator and campaigner for disabled people.

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* 1817 births 1884 deaths UK MPs 1874–1880 Irish Conservative Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cork City {{Conservative-UK-MP-1810s-stub