Sir Hercules Langrishe, 1st Baronet of Knocktopher

Sir Hercules Langrishe, 1st Baronet (1729 – 1 February 1811) was an Irish politician.

He was first elected to represent Knocktopher in the Irish House of Commons in May 1761, and sat until March 1800. In 1776 he was also returned for Callan, but was declared not duly elected.

On 19 February 1777 he was created a Baronet, of Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, in the Baronetage of Ireland. On 27 February 1792 he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council.

In Dublin, he was a member of Daly's Club.

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The first baronet, Sir Hercules, sat for forty years as M.P. for Knocktopher in the Irish Parliament. He was a Privy Councillor, and foremost in his advocacy for repealing the severe laws enacted against Roman Catholics.

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The Langrishes originally came from England, but were well-established in Ireland by the time May Langrishe and her siblings were born in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their paternal great-great-grandfather, Sir Hercules Langrishe (born in Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, in 1729), became a freeman of Kilkenny in 1750 and represented the constituency of Knocktopher as an MP in the Irish House of Commons for six consecutive terms totalling nearly 40 years, from 1761 until the abolition of the seat with the Act of Union in 1800.

Sir Hercules Langrishe was known for advocating the repeal of the penal laws against Catholics, though his advocacy in this respect is thought to have been motivated primarily by fiscal reasons. His gradual acquisition of property in the borough of Knocktopher allowed him to let exclusively to Catholics, who did not have the vote. In others respects, his politics were mainly protestant.

Hercules Langrishe was created 1st Baronet Langrishe, of Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, on 19 February 1777. The Langrishe baronetcy has passed down the male line of Langrishes, eventually being inherited by May’s father, Sir James Langrishe and, subsequently, by his son, Hercules Robert.

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Sir Hercules Langrishe, 1st Baronet of Langrishe (1729 - 1 February 1811) was an Irish politician.

He was first elected to represent Knocktopher in the Irish House of Commons in May 1761, and sat until he resigned his seat in March 1800. In 1776 he was also returned for Callan, but was declared not duly elected.

On 19 February 1777 he was created a Baronet, of Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, in the Baronetage of Ireland. On 27 February 1792 he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council.

In Dublin, he was a member of Daly's Club.[1]

References Jump up ^ T. H. S. Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329-333 http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsL1.htm http://www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncilI.htm

External links "Langrishe, Hercules". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885-1900.

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A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the Catholics of Ireland [January 3, 1792] 4.6.0 Sir Hercules Langrishe (1731-1811) was a younger Irish contemporary of Edmund Burke and, like him, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the Irish House of Commons from 1761 to the Union with Great Britain in 1800, after which he ceased to take an active part in politics. While the Irish House lasted, however, he was one of its most independent members, as he could afford to be, since he was virtually the sole proprietor of the borough he represented. 4.6.1 During the American crisis he advocated a conciliatory policy toward the colonies. An early friend of Burke's, he was well aware of Burke's views on the Penal Laws against Catholics, and to some extent shared them. At the time of this letter from Burke, the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778 and 1782 had repealed certain of those laws. But in the early 1790s, the growth of sympathy with the French Revolution among the Dissenters in the North of Ireland and the cordial relations between them and some Catholics seem to have prompted Langrishe to seek Burke's views on a petition by the Irish Catholic Committee for further relaxation of the Penal Laws. Burke replied on January 3, 1792, in the letter here published. It was a veritable pamphlet, evidently designed to be passed around. After it had appeared in print in Dublin in February 1792, Burke had it published by Debrett in London as it appears here. A Letter from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P. in the Kingdom of Great Britain, to Sir Hercules Langrishe, Bart. M.P.

[On the Subject of Roman Catholics of Ireland, and the Propriety of Admitting Them to the Elective Franchise, Consistently with the Principles of the Constitution as Established at the Revolution] 4.6.2 MY DEAR SIR,

Your remembrance of me, with sentiments of so much kindness, has given me the most sincere satisfaction. It perfectly agrees with the friendly and hospitable reception which my son and I received from you, some time since, when, after an absence of twenty-two years, I had the happiness of embracing you, among my few surviving friends. (...)

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