- William Archer Redmond (1825-1880)
William Archer Redmond sat for
Wexford as a member of theHome Rule Party led byIsaac Butt from 1872 to 1880.Redmond was the son of Patrick Redmond (deputy lieutenant for
County Wexford ) and Esther Kearney of Rocklands,County Wexford . He was the nephew ofJohn Edward Redmond (1806-1865) who had sat for the same seat as a Liberal and who is commemorated in Redmond Square inWexford . He was educated atStonyhurst andTrinity College Dublin . He was married to Mary Hoey, ofProtestant stock fromCounty Wicklow . His home was at Ballytrent near theTuskar Rock lighthouse.William Archer Redmond was the father of
John Redmond , leader of theIrish Parliamentary Party , and ofWilliam Hoey Kearney Redmond and the grandfather of the identically namedWilliam Archer Redmond who was both an MP and aTD during his political career.ource
Terence Denman: A Lonely Grave - the life and death of William Redmond Irish Academic Press 1995
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