Wednesday, 26 March 2014
460 Sir Rowland Blennerhassett
Constituency : Galway Borough 1865-74, Kerry 1880-85
Sir Rowland came in at Galway Borough when Lord Dunkellin switched to the county seat.
Rowland was a Catholic baronet educated at Stonyhurst and Oxford. He also studied for a time at Louvain.
In 1867 Rowland started The Chronicle a liberal Catholic journal which supported the idea of Home Rule. He later cooled on the idea and spoke out against Parnell.
Rowland was defeated by the Home Rule League in 1874. He returned for Kerry in 1880 where he shared the representation with a relative of the same name who sat as a Home Ruler.
Rowland was a regular correspondent to The Times and Daily Telegraph after leaving Parliament.
He died in 1909 aged 69.
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