John Blennerhassett (1769 – 6 July 1794) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...

politician. Blennerhassett was the son of William Blennerhassett and Catherine Johnson, and the great-grandson of John Blennerhassett. He was educated at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

, graduating with a

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in 1792. Between 1790 and his death in 1794 Blennerhassett sat in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ...

as the Member of Parliament for

County Kerry County Kerry () is a Counties of Ireland, county on the southwest coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is bordered by two other countie ...

. He was unmarried when he died.ThePeerage.com (entry #279675) http://thepeerage.com/p27968.htm#i279675 (Accessed 13 June 2015)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blennerhassett, John 1769 births 1794 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Anglo-Irish people

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Irish MPs 1790–1797 Politicians from County Kerry Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies