Charles Henry Meldon

Charles Henry Meldon, LL.D., QC (1841 – 15 May 1892) was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician who took his seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kildare from 1874 to 1885.^[1]

A Dublin-based barrister^[2] with an address in Rutland Square (now Parnell Square),^[3][4] Meldon was a Queen's Counsel and a Justice of the Peace for counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath, and Westmeath.^[4] He was a member of the Royal Commission established in 1878 to enquire into the Registration of Deeds, which reported in 1879 and 1880.^[5]

He was first elected to Parliament at the 1874 general election, as a Home Rule League candidate, when he defeated the sitting Liberal MP Lord Otho FitzGerald.^[6] He was re-elected as a Home Ruler in 1880,^[7] and joined the new Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) when it was created in 1882. When the Kildare constituency was divided at the 1885 general election, he did not stand for re-election.^[8]

References

1. ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "K", part 1". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm. Retrieved 5 December 2009. 
2. ^ MacDonagh, Michael. The Home Rule Movement. p. 31. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fvrvJ3KBgU8C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=Charles+Henry+Meldon&source=bl&ots=lGAmYwJmQw&sig=hUL739VRhTg1VpUTIJEUWiDt3c4&hl=en&ei=NPAaS-L4OMPG4Qahr9DuAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Henry%20Meldon&f=false. Retrieved 05 December 2009. 
3. ^ "County of DUBLIN-Alphabetical List of Landowners in 1870's - Names & Addresses Only - M". Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives. http://www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/dublin/censubs/dub-landowners-m.txt. Retrieved 5 December 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Part 4: County Establishment: Justices of the Peace". Guy's Directory, 1893. Clare County Library. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/directories/guys1893/justices_of_the_peace.htm. Retrieved 05 December 2009. 
5. ^ "List of commissions and officials: 1870-1879 (nos. 1-37)". Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 10: Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1870-1939 (1995). pp. 1–13. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16604&strquery=Meldon. Retrieved 06 December 2009. 
6. ^ Brian M. Walker, ed (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 117. ISBN 0 901714 12 7. 
7. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 125
8. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 133

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Meldon

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord Otho FitzGerald William Cogan	Member of Parliament for Kildare 1874 – 1885 With: William Cogan to 1880 James Leahy from 1880	Constituency divided

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Name	Meldon, Charles Henry
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Date of birth	1841
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Date of death	15 May 1892
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