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Esmonde, Sir Thomas Henry Grattan (1862–1935), 11th baronet, landowner and politician, was born 21 September 1862 at Pau, France, the eldest of seven children of Sir John Esmonde (d. 1876), a liberal MP and tenth holder of a baronetcy created in 1628, and Louisa Esmonde (d. 1880), daughter of Henry Grattan Jr (qv), MP.
Hace 2 días · Statesman. Henry Grattan, statesman and defender of the rights of Ireland, was buried next to Charles James Fox in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. The Abbey funeral fee book records "died Sunday June 4 1820 at his late English place of residence no 68 Baker Street, Portman Square aged 74 years, to be buried from Richmond House privy ...
William Pitt on Grattan's maiden speech in the British House of Commons (13 May 1805), quoted in Memoirs of the Life and Times of The Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Vol. V (1846), p. 262; The speech of Mr. Grattan was, I understand, a display of the most beautiful eloquence perhaps ever heard, but it was seditious and inflammatory to a degree hardly ...
GRATTAN, Henry (1746-1820), Irish statesman and orator, was born 3d July 1746. His father, a Protestant, was for many years recorder of the city of Dublin, and from 1761 to 1766 its representative in the Irish parliament ; and his mother was a daughter of Thomas Marlay, chief justice of Ireland. Both at school and at Trinity College, Dublin ...
Henry Grattan, the Regency Crisis and the emergence of a Whig party in Ireland, 1788-9. III in T October he Regency 1788 Crisis has a that twofold proceeded importance from in the Irish apparent political insanity history. of George. In an Anglo-Irish context, it can be argued that this episode crucially.
Henry Grattan (3 July 1746 – 6 June 1820) was an Irish politician. He was a member of the Irish House of Commons. He wanted changes such as Catholic Emancipation and more self government for the kingdom. He did not believe that Ireland and Great Britain should become a single country. He was one of the people who were most important in ...
Before the Act of Union in 1800, writes John Stocks Powell, Grattan dominated Irish politics over twenty years in an age of enlightenment that failed. ‘And as anything less than liberty is inadequate to Ireland, so it is dangerous to Great Britain. We are too near the British nation, we are too conversant with her history, we are too much ...
