Colonel Brockhill Newburgh (c. 1659 – 11 January 1741) was an Irish

Ireland

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 politician.

He was the grandson of Brockhill Taylor

Brockhill Taylor

Brockhill Taylor was a member of Parliament for Cavan Borough from 1634 to 1635 in the Irish House of Commons.In 1609 his father, John Taylor from Cambridge, had received the patantee of Ballyhaise, namely of arable land in Barony of Loughtee. The new landowners replaced the existing Irish...

, who had represented Cavan Borough

Cavan Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Cavan Borough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:...

 in the Irish House of Commons

Irish House of Commons

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. From 1715 until 1727, Newburgh sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Cavan County.

He was chairman of the Linen Board. His son was the poet Thomas Newburgh

Thomas Newburgh

Thomas Newburgh was an Irish poet.He was the son of Brockhill Newburgh, chairman of the board of linen manufacturers, who owned property at Ballyhaise, co. Cavan. Amongst his works was a miscellaneous collection, Essays, Poetical, Moral, &c., 1769, sometimes appearing in bibliographic records as...

, publisher of Essays, Poetical, Moral, &c., 1769, a work that perhaps contains notes from, and is sometimes attributed to, Brockhill Newburgh.