biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1723–91)
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| biography:
| Irish statesman. He studied at Dublin and Oxford, and was leader of the Popular Party in the Irish parliament after his election in 1759. In 1775 he became vice-treasurer of Ireland, but was removed in 1781 as a strong nationalist. In 1783 he was returned for Winchester, and in 1785 for Seaford, but he failed to make a great mark at Westminster. |
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