David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore (Caricature in Vanity Fair magazine , May 29, 1880)

David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore QC (born December 3, 1838 - † August 22, 1919 ) was an Irish - British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party , who for 25 years was a member of the House of Commons and Paymaster General and First Commissioner of Works was.

Life

Plunket was a son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket and Charlotte Bushe, a daughter of Charles Kendal Bushe, who was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1822 .

After attending school he studied at Trinity College of Dublin University , he with a Master of Arts graduated (MA). According to his lawyer admitted to the Bar Association King's Inn , he took a job in 1862 as a barrister and in 1868 legal adviser to the Government of Ireland and the Attorney General (Queen's Counsel) appointed.

On February 14, 1870, Plunket was elected for the first time for the Conservative Party to the House of Commons and represented there for over 25 years until July 13, 1895, the constituency of Dublin University . Shortly after his election in 1875 he became Solicitor General of Ireland and held this office until 1877. During the tenure of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1880 he was briefly Paymaster General .

In the first government of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , he took over the office of Minister for Public Works (First Commissioner of Works) for the first time from June 23, 1885 to February 1, 1886 . On August 3, 1886, Prime Minister Salisbury reappointed him as First Commissioner of Works in his second government, to which he was a member until the end of Salisbury's tenure on August 15, 1892.

After leaving the House of Commons, Plunket was raised to the hereditary nobility by a letters patent dated November 14, 1895 as Baron Rathmore , of Shanganagh in the County of Dublin , and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death . At the time of his death, he had served in the UK Parliament for nearly 50 years .

Since Plunket remained unmarried and childless, the title of Baron Rathmore expired on his death.

Web links

• David Plunket at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leighrayment
• David Robert Plunket, 1st and last Baron Rathmore on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Rathmore 1895-1919	Title expired