Sir Edward Grogan, 1st Baronet (5 November 1802 – 26 January 1891) was an Irish Conservative Party

Irish Conservative Party

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 politician.

Educated at Winchester College

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 and Trinity College Dublin, Grogan matriculated with a M.A. degree. He was called to the bar

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 in 1840. He was made a baronet

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 on 23 April 1859, of Moyvore, County Westmeath

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-Economy:Westmeath has a strong agricultural economy. Initially, development occurred around the major market centres of Mullingar, Moate, and Kinnegad. Athlone developed due to its military significance, and its strategic location on the main Dublin–Galway route across the River Shannon. Mullingar...

.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Dublin City

Dublin City (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1841 general election

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-Seats summary:-Whig MPs who lost their seats:*Viscount Morpeth - Chief Secretary for Ireland*Sir George Strickland, Bt*Sir Henry Barron, 1st Baronet-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987...

, and held the seat until the 1865 general election

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.

In 1867 he married Catherine Charlotte McMahon. In January 1891 he fell from the upstairs window of his home in Dundrum

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 and suffered severe injuries, dying two weeks later.

He was succeeded in the title by his son Edward

Sir Edward Grogan, 2nd Baronet

Colonel Sir Edward Ion Beresford Grogan, 2nd Baronet CMG DSO was a British Army officer.The son of the politician Sir Edward Grogan, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1893. He had succeeded...

(1873–1927).