Sir Lucius O'Brien, 5th Baronet, 13th Baron Inchiquin

Lucius (McEdward) O'Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin (5 December 1800 – 22 March 1872), known as Sir Lucius O'Brien, 5th Baronet from 1837 to 1855, was an

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politician and nobleman. He is remembered respectfully in County Clare for his relief work in the famine years.

Biography

He was born at

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in 1800, the eldest son of

Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th Baronet Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th Baronet (17 April 1773 – 13 March 1837) was an Irish parliamentarian who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1802 to 1826. He was the son of Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet (1731–1795) and Anne Fr ...

and Charlotte Smith. He was educated at

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, graduating B.A. in 1825. In 1826, he replaced his father as

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Member of Parliament for Clare, but was unseated in 1830 by the Whig candidates. He unsuccessfully contested the county again in 1835, but was appointed

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for that year instead. Upon the death of his father in 1837, he succeeded to the baronetcy, and he was appointed

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in 1843. He again contested Clare in 1847, topping the poll and ousting Cornelius O'Brien. In 1848, he published a book, ''Ireland in 1848: the late famine and the Poor Laws''. During the same year, his brother

William Smith O'Brien William Smith O'Brien ( ga, Liam Mac Gabhann Ó Briain; 17 October 1803 – 18 June 1864) was an Irish nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) and a leader of the Young Ireland movement. He also encouraged the use of the Irish language. He ...

, a

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, led an abortive rebellion and narrowly escaped hanging. O'Brien did not contest Clare in 1852. In 1855, he inherited the title of Baron Inchiquin from his ninth cousin, the last Marquess of Thomond, and was confirmed in this right by the Lord's Committee of Privileges in 1862. He was elected a

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for Ireland in 1863. He died in 1872 at Dromoland and was succeeded by his son

Edward O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin Edward Donough O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin KP (14 May 1839 – 9 April 1900) was the holder of a hereditary peerage in the Peerage of Ireland, as well as Chief of the Name of O'Brien and Prince of Thomond in the Gaelic Irish nobility. In 1 ...

Family

O'Brien married Mary, daughter of William FitzGerald of Adelphi and Corofin, and together they had the following children; *

*Charlotte O'Brien *Mary Grace O'Brien.

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References

* * ''The Parliaments of England'' by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)) ''out of copyright''

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