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About The Right Honorable Edward Lucas
THE RT HON EDWARD LUCAS JP DL MP, of Castle Shane, born in 1787, who represented County Monaghan in parliament; high sheriff, 1818; Under-Secretary of State for Ireland, 1841-6; privy counsellor, 1845.
Edward Lucas (1787-1871), Castle Shane, County Monaghan, was born on 27 September 1787. In 1812 he married Anne, daughter of William Ruxton, Ardee House, County Louth.
Lucas was a conservative M.P. for County Monaghan 1834-41. He was appointed under secretary for Ireland 1841-6 and proved an able executive and chief support of the De Grey administration.
In 1834 he was elected a life member of the Royal Dublin Society (R.D.S.), his proposers being Lord Downshire and J. L. Naper.
He was a vice-president of the Agricultural Society of Ireland 1835-41. He was an Irish privy councillor from 1845. Lucas was helpful to the R.D.S. in 1841-2 in restoring the parliamentary grant removed by the previous whig administration in 1840-1. He was not otherwise active in the Society, although he was recorded as attending a general meeting on 24 February 1853.
He died on 12 November 1871. The representatives of his estate owned 9,955 acres of land in County Monaghan in 1876.
Reference http://www.rds.ie/cat_historic_member_detail.jsp?itemID=1100946&ite...
Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
- Name: Edward Lucas
- Estimated birth year: abt 1786
- Date of Registration: 1871
- Death Age: 85
- Registration district: Monaghan
- Volume: 18
- Page: 174
- FHL Film Number: 101585
References and Sources
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleshane,_County_Monaghan
- http://www.stirnet.com/genie/support/notloggedin.php?refurl=/genie/...
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EDWARD LUCAS:
- MP for Co Monaghan from 1834
- Under Secretary of State for Ireland (1841-6)
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The Right Honorable Edward Lucas's Timeline
1787 |
September 27, 1787
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Castle Shane, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
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1814 |
1814
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Castle Shane, Monaghan, Ireland
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1816 |
1816
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Castle Shane, Monaghan, Ireland
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1818 |
1818
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Castle Shane, Monaghan, Ireland
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1819 |
December 18, 1819
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Castle Shane, Monaghan, Ireland
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1820 |
1820
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Castle Shane, Monaghan, Ireland
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1823 |
August 31, 1823
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British Chaplaincy, Geneva, Switzerland
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1825 |
1825
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Castle Shane, Monaghan, Ireland
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1831 |
March 14, 1831
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Dublin, Ireland
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