Henry O'Callaghan Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley (21 March 1851 – 5 August 1927), 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...

 peer.

Dunalley was the son of Henry Prittie, 3rd Baron Dunalley. He was educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. In 1883, Prittie was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary

High Sheriff of Tipperary

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. He succeeded his father as fourth Baron Dunalley in 1885 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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. However, in 1891 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer

Representative peer

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, which he remained until his death. Lord Dunalley also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary from 1905 to 1922. He died in August 1927, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Henry.