Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath (30 January 1854 – 22 March 1931), was an Irish

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 Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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Dunleath was the son of John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath

John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath

John Mulholland, 1st Baron Dunleath was an Irish businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament.Dunleath was the son of Andrew Mulholland of Ballywalter Park in County Down. He was involved in the Mulholland family cotton and linen industry and also represented Downpatrick in the British House...

. The Mulholland family were prominent in the cotton and linen industry in Ireland. He served as High Sheriff of Down

High Sheriff of Down

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 in 1884.

He was elected to the British House of Commons

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 for Londonderry North in 1885, a seat he held until 1895, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords

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Lord Dunleath married Norah Louisa Fanny Ward, daughter of Hon. Somerset Ward, in 1881. Their eldest son Captain Hon. Andrew Edward Somerset Mulholland was killed in action in the First World War. Lord Dunleath died in March 1931, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son Charles. His third son Hon. Henry

Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet PC , was a Northern Ireland politician.Mulholland was the third son of Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath, and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward...

 became Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland

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 and was created a Baronet

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in 1945. Lady Dunleath died in 1935.