Richard Dane

Richard Martin Dane (4 December 1852 – 22 March 1903)[1] was an Irish Unionist politician who later became a judge.

He was elected at the 1892 general election as Member of Parliament for North Fermanagh, winning the seat which had been held until the election by the Nationalist MP Willie Redmond.[2] Redmond had sided with the Parnellite minority when the Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1891, and in 1892 he won a seat in East Clare; Dane's victory in North Fermanagh over an Anti-Parnellite candidate made him the first in a series of Unionists who represented the constituency until its abolition in 1918.

Dane was re-elected in 1895, defeating an independent Liberal candidate, and held the seat until he left the House of Commons in 1898 to become a county court judge.[2]

References
  1. "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "F"". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  2. Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 349. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Willie Redmond		 Member of Parliament for North Fermanagh
1892 – 1898		 Succeeded by
Edward Archdale


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