About Henry Chester
Lived 1777 – 1855 (aged 77–78). Henry Chester was a British politician.
Henry Chester (died 1855) was an Irish politician.
Living at Cartown, near Drogheda, Chester became a deputy-lieutenant and magistrate of County Louth. Chester was appointed as High Sheriff of Louth in 1837, unusually for a Catholic whose name was not put forward by judges. However, he wished to contest the 1837 UK general election in County Louth as a Whig. He was permitted to resign as High Sheriff in order to stand, and won the seat. However, he resigned in 1840 by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds.
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politician 1777-1855
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Henry Chester was born in 1777.
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Henry Chester died in 1855 in Dún Laoghaire.
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