Leonard Dobbin
Leonard Dobbin(29 September 1762[1]– 19 February 1844) was an IrishLiberalpolitician who sat in theHouse of Commonsfrom 1832 to 1837.
He was the eldest son of Leonard Dobbin senior, of Mount Dobbin, Tirnascobe,County Armaghand Mary Oates, daughter of Thomas Oates, and a descendant ofAdam Murray,who commanded theWilliamiteforces at theSiege of Derry.The Dobbins were an oldCarrickfergusfamily, one branch of which settled in Armagh.
Dobbin was a clerk of the peace inArmagh.In the1832 general electionDobbin was elected asMember of Parliament(MP) forArmagh City.He held the seat until 1837.[2]Dobbin then becameHigh Sheriff of Armaghin 1838.[3]
Dobbin gave to the city an area of parkland beside the Ballinahone River in Armagh.[4]This is commemorated in the songDobbin's Flowery Vale.[5]
He had no children, and his estates passed to his nephew and namesake Leonard Dobbin. On his retirement from politics, his seat in the House of Commons was successfully contested by another nephew,William Curry(1784-1843),Serjeant-at-law (Ireland),son of his sister Anne, who married William Curry senior ofAughnacloy, County Tyrone.
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References[edit]
- ^Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912, page 183,http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/nbl/lh_nbl_show5.php?id=050591
- ^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 2)
- ^The High Sheriffs of County Armagh
- ^The Dublin Penny Journal 1835
- ^Helen Roche
- ^"Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. F".National Library of Ireland. p. 209.Retrieved5 July2022.