James Delahunty

Vanity Fair caricature of Delahunty by James Tissot

James Delahunty (1808 – 15 June 1885)[1] was an Irish Liberal Party politician from Waterford.

He was elected at the 1868 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Waterford City,[2] but was defeated at the 1874 general election, when both the city's seats were won by candidates of the Home Rule Party.[2]

He returned to the House of Commons three years later, when he was elected at a by-election in January 1877 as MP for County Waterford following the death of Sir John Esmonde, Bt.[3] This time Delahunty was himself a Home Rule candidate, and he defeated his Liberal opponent by a margin of more than 3:1.[4]

Delahunty "was laughed at because of the dullness of his oratory".[5] In 1878 he caused amusement in the Commons by spreading on his bench sundry personal items taken from his bag in a long search for the notes for his speech on the Money Laws (Ireland) Bill.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
  2. 1 2 Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922. A New History of Ireland. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 318. ISBN 0901714127. ISSN 0332-0286.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24409. p. 369. 26 January 1877. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Walker, op. cit. page 319
  5. ↑ Power, Patrick C. (1990). History of Waterford: City and County. Mercier Press. p. 177. ISBN 9780853429456.
  6. ↑ Lucy, H. W. (July 1897). "The Queen's Parliaments". North American Review. 165 (488): 99–111: 104–5.
  7. ↑ "[BILL 56] SECOND READING". HC Deb. Hansard. 20 March 1878. pp. vol 238 cc1699–706. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Henry Barron, Bt
John Aloysius Blake		 Member of Parliament for Waterford City
1868 – 1874
With: John Aloysius Blake to 1869
Sir Henry Barron, Bt 1869–70
Ralph Bernal Osborne 1870–74		 Succeeded by
Richard Power
Purcell O'Gorman
Preceded by
Lord Charles Beresford
Sir John Esmonde, Bt		 Member of Parliament for County Waterford
1877 – 1880
With: Lord Charles Beresford		 Succeeded by
John Aloysius Blake
Henry Villiers-Stuart


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