About Henry Bruen
Lived 1741 – 1795 (aged 53–54). Henry Bruen was a politician.
Henry Bruen (1741 – 14 December 1795) was an Irish politician. In the pre-Act of Union Parliament of Ireland, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Jamestown from 1783 to 1790, and then for County Carlow from 1790 until his death in 1795. He married Dorothea Henrietta Knox, daughter of Francis Knox, in 1787. They had three sons and three daughters: their eldest son Henry (1789–1852), was an MP for County Carlow for most of the period from 1812 to 1852, and their youngest child Francis was MP for the borough of Carlow in the 1830s. Henry's son Henry Bruen (1828–1912), was MP for County Carlow from 1857 to 1880.
From 1775 until 1957, the family lived in Oak Park estate, near Carlow town.
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