William Macartney was an Irish politician.

Biography

He was born in 1714,Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, ''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800'' (2006
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the younger son of Isaac Macartney,

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in 1690, and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Haltridge of Dromore. His elder brother George also served as High Sheriff of Antrim, and his sister Grace married

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. Lieutenant-General George Macartney was his uncle. Sir Bernard Burke, ''

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'' (1863) vol. II
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Macartney sat in the

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for

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from 1747 to 1760. He married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Bankes, of the family of Bankes of

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, and was the father of Arthur Chichester Macartney of Murlough, his heir, and of

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, of Lish. He died on 27 June 1793.

References

1714 births 1793 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Belfast {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub