Sir Hugh Crofton, 2nd Baronet (17 July 1763 – 6 January 1834) 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.
Crofton was the son of
Sir Morgan Crofton, 1st Baronet and Jeanne d'Abzac. Between 1786 and 1790 he 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
Tulsk
Tulsk () is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland, on the N5 road (Ireland), N5 roads in Ireland, national primary road between Strokestown and Bellanagare. It sits at around 19 km north of Roscommon, Roscommon town.
Heritage
Near Tulsk ...
.
[E. M. Johnston-Liik]
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.81 (Retrieved 31 March 2020). He married Frances Smyth, daughter of Ralph Smyth, in June 1787. On 12 February 1802, he succeeded to his father's
baronetcy
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.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crofton, Hugh, 2nd Baronet
1763 births
1834 deaths
18th-century Anglo-Irish people
19th-century Anglo-Irish people
Irish MPs 1783–1790
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Hugh
Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). ...
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Roscommon constituencies