About Edmund Dease
Lived 1829 – 1904 (aged 75). Edmund Dease was an Irish politician.
Edmund Gerald Dease (6 September 1829 – 17 July 1904) was an Irish Home Rule League and Liberal politician.
He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Queen's County at a by-election in 1870 as a Liberal candidate, and won the seat again in 1874 as a Home Rule candidate. He then held the seat until he stood down in 1880.
Dease was educated at Queen's University of Ireland where he achieved a Master of Arts. Throughout his life, he was also a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of National Education, and member of the senate at Royal University of Ireland. His daughter was the Irish language prayer collector Charlotte Dease.
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Who was Edmund Dease?
Dease, Edmund Gerald (1829–1904), landowner and politician
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Edmund Dease was born on 17 January 1829.
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Edmund Dease died on 17 January 1904.
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Edmund Dease was a politician.
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Edmund Dease was Irish.
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