975 Richard Allman

Constituency :  Bandon  1880-85

The  Conservatives  gained  Bandon  at  the  1880  election  by  15  votes  but  the  Liberals  immediately  protested  the  result. The  Tory  victor  agreed  to  stand  down  in  return  for  a  withdrawal  of  the  election  petition. Richard  , the  Liberal  candidate  won  the  by-election  by  45  votes.

Richard  came  from  a  local  entrepreneurial  family  who  were  first  cotton  manufacturers  but  now  distillers.  He  was  educated  at  Belfast  College  and  was  a  Unitarian.

Richard  never  spoke  in  the  Commons.

He  died  in  1904  aged  91.