Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett

Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett KC, JP (22 July 1850 – 7 April 1913)[1] was an Irish politician.

For other people named Rowland Blennerhassett, see Rowland Blennerhassett (disambiguation).

Early life

He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.[2] Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church, Oxford.[3]

Career

In a by-election in 1872, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kerry until 1885.[1] Blennerhassett was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878,[3] and in April 1894 became bencher and a King's Counsel.[2][4] He was a Justice of the Peace for Kerry.[3]

Personal life

On 21 September 1876, he married Mary Beatrice Armstrong, youngest daughter of the art historian Walter Armstrong.[5] They had one son.[5] Mary Beatrice is buried in the Armstrong family vault on the inside of the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery.

References
  1. "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Kerry". Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  2. "ThePeerage - Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett". Retrieved 19 March 2007.
  3. Debrett, John (1881). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 20.
  4. "No. 26501". The London Gazette. 6 April 1894. p. 1954.
  5. Burke, Bernhard (1912). Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Arthur Herbert
Viscount Castlerosse		 Member of Parliament for Kerry
1872 – 1885
With: Henry Arthur Herbert 1872–1880
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Bt 1880–1885		 Constituency abolished


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