About John Redmond Freke
John Redmond Freke was a politician.
Sir John Redmond Freke, 3rd Baronet (died 13 April 1764) was a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain and a member of parliament in the Irish House of Commons.
He was the younger son of Sir Ralph Freke, 1st Baronet, by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Meade, 1st Baronet. Elizabeth Meade's mother was Elizabeth Redman, the daughter and co-heir of Colonel Daniel Redman of Ballylinch, County Kilkenny. John Redmond Freke succeeded to the baronetcy bestowed on his father on 10 April 1728, on the death of his elder brother Percy, the second baronet.
He was M.P. for Baltimore (a constituency previously represented by his grandfather Percy Freke) from 1728 until 1760, and for the city of Cork from 1761 until his death. He was Sheriff of Cork in 1750, and Mayor of Cork in 1753.
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British baronet and Irish politician
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