Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor, O'Conor Don (26 October 1869 – 22 February 1917) was an Irish lawyer and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor. O'Conor was the son of

Charles Owen O'Conor Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don PC (Ire) (; 7 May 1838 – 30 June 1906),John P. McCarthyIreland: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present p. 379 was an Irish politician. Life The eldest son of Denis O'Conor, he was educated at ...

and Georgina Mary Perry. He was educated at

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and the

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, graduating in law. He was called to the bar at King's Inn. In 1898 he served as High Sheriff of Roscommon, and in 1906 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Roscommon in succession to his father. He was a Justice of the Peace for County Roscommon and was admitted to the

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in 1916.

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Denis Denis may refer to: People * Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris * Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure * Denis, Bishop of Győr (13th century), Hungarian prelate * Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), bar ...

People educated at Downside School