Justin Huntly McCarthy

Justin Huntly McCarthy

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 – 20 March 1936)[1] was an Irish author and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1884 to 1892, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

He was the son of Justin McCarthy (1830–1912). Since both father and son were authors, historians, and Members of Parliament, they are sometimes confused in lists and compilations.

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Political career

McCarthy was first elected to Parliament at a by-election on 12 June 1884, when he was returned unopposed as the Home Rule League member for Athlone, following the death of the Liberal MP Sir John James Ennis.[2]

Athlone lost its status as a parliamentary borough under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and at the 1885 general election McCarthy stood instead in the borough of Newry in County Down, where he was returned unopposed for the Irish Parliamentary Party.[3] He was re-elected in 1886, with a comfortable majority over the Liberal Unionist Reginald Saunders,[4] but did contest the 1892 election.

Writing

McCarthy wrote various novels, plays, poetical pieces and short histories. He was briefly married to Cissie Loftus.

Among other works, he wrote biographies of Sir Robert Peel (1891), Pope Leo XIII (1896) and William Ewart Gladstone (1898). In 1889 he published prose translations of 466 quatrains of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.[5] He also wrote:

References

  1. ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "N", part 2". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ncommons2.htm. Retrieved 13 December 2009. 
  2. ^ Brian M. Walker, ed (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 129. ISBN 0 901714 12 7. 
  3. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 134
  4. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 140
  5. ^ Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Justin Huntly McCarthy MP. [London] : D. Nutt, 1889. (Souce: Trinity College Dublin Library)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir John James Ennis, Bt
Member of Parliament for Athlone
1884 – 1885
Constituency abolished
Preceded by
Henry Thomson
Member of Parliament for Newry
18851892
Succeeded by
Patrick George Hamilton Carvill




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