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Name
  
William Findlater

Role
  
Irish politician

Died
  
1906


William Findlater (Irish politician)

Sir William Findlater (1824–1906) was an Irish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

William Findlater (Irish politician) WILLIAM FINDLATER MP Co Monaghan Irish Liberal Politician Antique

Findlater was the son of William Findlater, a merchant of Londonderry. He became a solicitor in 1846 and was also a partner in the Mountjoy Brewery. In 1878 he was elected president of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland., for which he was knighted.

At the 1880 general election Findlater was elected Member of Parliament for Monaghan. He held the seat until 1885. He was president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland between 1891 and 1894.

Findlater died at the age of 81.

Findlater married firstly in 1853 Mary Jane Wolfe, daughter of John Wolfe a solicitor of Dublin, and secondly Marion Park, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Park of the Indian Army.

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