Thursday 7 March 2013
76 Edward McEvoy
Constituency : Meath 1855-74 ( initially as Independent Irish Party )
Edward was first elected in a by-election in 1855 holding the seat for the IIP after the death of his predecessor. He was a Catholic landowner with an estate at Tobertynan. He and his wife erected a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes when their marriage was blessed with a child after eighteen years.
He was counted by Derby as a certain vote for the government in the 1859 vote of confidence.
He lost his seat to a Home Ruler in 1874 and died in 1899 aged 72.
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