About Bernard Kelly
Lived 1808 – 1887 (aged 78–79). Bernard Kelly was a politician.
Bernard Kelly (1808 – 1 January 1887) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as the first Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the constituency of South Donegal in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was first elected in the 1885 general election and re-elected in the general election of 1886. He died in office in 1887.
Kelly is buried at Ballyshannon, County Donegal where his headstone reads:
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British politician
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Bernard Kelly was born in 1808.
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Bernard Kelly died on 1 January 1887.
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Bernard Kelly was a politician.
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