Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley (3 March 1775 – 19 October 1854) was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 politician.

Dunalley was the son of Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley

Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley

Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament.Prittie was the son Henry Prittie. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Banagher in 1767, a seat he held until 1768. He then represented Gowran from 1769 to 1776 and Tipperary from 1776 to 1790. Prittie was...

. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons

Irish House of Commons

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 for Carlow Borough

Carlow Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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 in 1798, a seat he held until the Irish Parliament was abolished in 1801. The same year he succeeded his father as second Baron Dunalley, but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the British House of Lords. In 1819 Dunalley became a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) in the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 for Okehampton

Okehampton (UK Parliament constituency)

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, and represented this constituency until 1824. He was elected an Irish Representative Peer

Representative peer

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in 1828, and sat in the House of Lords until his death.

Lord Dunalley married, firstly, Maria Trant, daughter of Dominick Trant, in 1802. After his first wife's death in 1819 he married, secondly, Hon. Emily Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden, in 1826. Lord Dunalley died in October 1854, aged 79. Both his marriages were childless and he was succeeded in the barony by his nephew Henry Prittie.