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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Henry Grattan, Charles Lanyon, Horace Plunkett, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, Isaac Butt, George Alexander Hamilton, David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore, Henry Bruen, Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Athenree, Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, Francis Bruen, Henry Lowry-Corry, John Ellison-Macartney, John Orrell Lever, William Goulding, John Vance, Hugh Holmes, James Whiteside, Sir Henry Bruce, 3rd Baronet, Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet, John Edward Walsh, John Thomas Ball, Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, Irish Conservative Party, John George Gibson, Edward de Cobain, William McClintock-Bunbury, Robert Bateson, John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, Robert Torrens O'Neill, Hedges Eyre Chatterton, Joseph Devonsher Jackson, William Bagwell, Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, Robert Warren, George Beresford, Edward Litton, Percy Bernard, Stephen Moore, Richard Davison, Sir Hugh Stewart, 2nd Baronet, James Horner Haslett, Sir Edward Grogan, 1st Baronet, Henry Francis Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles, John McKane. Excerpt: Henry Grattan (3 July 1746 - 6 June 1820) was a member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century. He opposed the Act of Union 1800 that merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain. Grattan was born at Fishamble St., Dublin, and baptized in the nearby church of St. John the Evangelist. A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was the son of James Grattan MP, of Belcamp Park, County Dublin (d. 1766), and Mary (1724-1768), youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Marlay (1691-1756), Attorney-General of Ireland, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). Grattan was a distinguished student a...
