Purcell O'Gorman

Purcell O'Gorman (1820 – 24 November 1888) was an Irish nationalist politician and member of parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected as a member of the Home Rule League to represent Waterford City. He was elected only once, in the 1874 United Kingdom general election, and served until 1880.

Life A scion of the landed gentry of Ireland, but a Roman Catholic, O'Gorman was born in Kilkenny, the son of the successful barrister Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman QC, who was the Secretary of Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association. He was educated at Clongowes, a Jesuit school, then at the age of sixteen matriculated at Trinity College Dublin. There he graduated BA in law in 1840.

O'Gorman served as one of Waterford's two Home Rule League members of parliament from February 1874 until 1880.

O'Gorman died at Springfield, County Kilkenny, in November 1888. In 1860 their elder daughter, Frances Alice O'Gorman, married Captain E. J. Anderson, Royal Engineers. He was later a Brigadier-General. In 1905 their younger daughter, Mary O'Gorman, became the second wife of Lt. Colonel Robert Thomas Carew, a former high sheriff of County Waterford.