Constituency : County Cork 1868-79
Timothy took back one of the County Cork seats.
Timothy was a well-regarded solicitor who spoke frequently on Irish matters. In 1870 he pressed Gladstone to release Fenian prisoners. In the 1870s he came to believe that he was in line for a peerage and wanted to change the name of his home town Skibbereen which he felt had negative connotations relating to the Famine. He persuaded most of the Town Commissioners to accept his preferred name of Ilenmore but the resistance campaign led by a local shopkeeper forced him to drop the plans.
He died in 1879 aged 64. The Home Rulers took the seat in the by-election.
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