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David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC (3 December 1838 – 22 August 1919) was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.
The Lord Rathmore | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Paymaster General | |
| In office 24 March 1880 – 21 April 1880 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Beaconsfield |
| Preceded by | Sir Stephen Cave |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Wolverton |
| First Commissioner of Works | |
| In office 24 June 1885 – 28 January 1886 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Rosebery |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Morley |
| In office 5 August 1886 – 11 August 1892 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Elgin |
| Succeeded by | George Shaw-Lefevre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 December 1838 |
| Died | 22 August 1919 (aged 80) Greenore, County Louth |
| Resting place | Putney Vale Cemetery, London 51°26′27″N 0°14′19″W / 51.440739°N 0.238533°W |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
Background and education
editPlunket was the third son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket, second son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His mother was Charlotte, daughter of Charles Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, while the Most Reverend William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin, was his elder brother. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin[1] and was called to the Irish Bar in 1862.[citation needed]
Political and legal career
editAfter practising on the Munster Circuit for a number of years,[citation needed] Plunket was made a Queen's Counsel in 1868, and became Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that same year. In 1870, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Dublin University, and was Solicitor General for Ireland under Benjamin Disraeli from 1875 to 1877. He was then briefly Paymaster General under Disraeli (then known as the Earl of Beaconsfield) in 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year.[2] In 1885 he became First Commissioner of Works in Lord Salisbury's first ministry, a post he held until January 1886. He resumed the same post in August of the same year when the Conservatives returned to power, and held it until 1892. On his retirement from the House of Commons in 1895 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Rathmore, of Shanganagh in the County of Dublin.[3]
Apart from his political and legal career he was a director of the Suez Canal Company, Chairman of the North London Railway for many years and a director of the Central London Railway at its opening in 1900..[citation needed]
Personal life
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In Dublin, Rathmore was a member of the Kildare Street Club.[4] He died in August 1919, unmarried, at the age of eighty, in the Railway Hotel in Greenore, County Louth[citation needed] and is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery in London. His peerage became extinct at his death.
References
edit- ^ Teignmouth-Shore, Thomas (4 July 1903). O'Connor, Thomas Power (ed.). "In the Days of My youth - Chapters of Autobiography - CCLXIV". Mainly About People. p. 18. Retrieved 4 September 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "No. 24827". The London Gazette. 26 March 1880. p. 2245.
- ^ "No. 26680". The London Gazette. 15 November 1895. p. 6182.
- ^ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333
External links
edit- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David Plunket
- . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). 1922.