Richard Griffith (politician)
Richard Griffith, MP (10 June 1752 – 30 June 1820) was the only son of Richard Griffith of Maiden Hall, County Kilkenny, (1714 - 1788), and novelist Elizabeth Griffith.[1]
Griffith served as the Member of Parliament for Askeaton in the Irish House of Commons between 1783 and 1790.[2]
He was twice wed; first, to Charity Yorke Bramston, with whom he had Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet;[3] she died in June 1789.
On February 24, 1793, he married Mary (died September 10, 1820), daughter of Walter Hussey Burgh, with whom he had Arthur Hill Griffith (1810 - 1881), an attorney.
Arthur Hill Griffith fathered numerous children with his second wife, Hannah Rose Cottingham (1826 - 1921).[4] In 1871, the family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, from County Westmeath, Ireland, including:
- Edward Arthur Griffith (1857 - 1949), mining attorney, whose descendants include the son of Lucy Griffith Paré and Canadian mining engineer Al Paré, Jules-Arthur Paré (1917 - 2013), who was Professor Emeritus of McGill University Faculty of Medicine, and their great-granddaughter, actress Jessica Paré.[5] (Al Paré's father, a physician, was one of three siblings who had each married a sibling of a prominent Canadian mining family, for whom Timmins, Ontario was named by Al Paré, in 1912, in honor of his uncle, Noah Timmins.[6][7])
- Christopher Arthur Griffith (1858 - 1949), physician.[8]
- Arthur Hill Griffith, attorney and politician for whom Griffith, New South Wales is named, and whose children included Wing Commander Sturt de Burgh Griffith (1905 – 1979), an engineer, patent attorney, and journalist.[9]
References
- ↑ Leslie, Sir Stephen Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 23, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen, Macmillan, Great Britain, 1890, page 238. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ↑ E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.93 (Retrieved 4 March 2016).
- ↑ Paré, L.G.The Seeds: The Life Story of a Matriarch, by Lucy Griffith Paré (with Antoine Paré), Les Entreprises de Carpent Perdu Inc., Ste-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Québec, Canada, 1984, page 305.
- ↑ Leslie, Sir Stephen Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 23, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen, Macmillan, Great Britain, 1890, page 238. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ↑ Généalogie du Québec Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française, "Généalogie Jessica Paré". Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Barnes, Michael (1986). Fortunes in the Ground. Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press. p. 123. ISBN 091978352X.
- ↑ City of Timmins Timmins, Ontario Canada, "Founding Fathers". Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ↑ Plarr, Victor "Griffith, Christopher Arthur (1858 - 1949)",Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ↑ Daw, E.D. "Griffith, Sturt de Burgh (1905–1979)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 1996. Accessed February 12, 2018.
Parliament of Ireland | ||
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Preceded by Joseph Hoare Hon. Hugh Massy |
Member of Parliament for Askeaton 1783–1790 With: Joseph Hoare |
Succeeded by Joseph Hoare Henry Alexander |