Gervase Parker Bushe
Gervase Parker Bushe | |
|---|---|
| Member of parliament for Granard | |
| In office 1767–1776 | |
| Preceded by | Edmond Malone |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Maunsell |
| High Sheriff of County Kilkenny | |
| In office 1767–1776 | |
| Preceded by | John Greene of Greeneville |
| Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City | |
| In office 1778–1783 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Agar |
| Succeeded by | William Cuffe |
| Member of Parliament for Fore | |
| In office 1778–1783 | |
| Preceded by | James FitzGerald |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Francis William Fremantle |
| Member of Parliament for Lanesborough | |
| In office 1790–1793 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Dillon |
| Succeeded by | Edmond Stanley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | bapt. 22 December 1744 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 12 August 1793 (aged 48) Kilfane, County Kilkenny, Ireland |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Gervase Parker Bushe (1744 – 13 August 1793) was an Irish landowner and MP.
He was the son of Amyas Bushe of Dublin and his wife Elizabeth Parker. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (where he matriculated in 1763)[1] and at Trinity College Dublin (where he graduated BA, LLB and LLD). He became a lawyer and lived at Kilfane in County Kilkenny.[2]
He served as an MP in the Parliament of Ireland for Granard from 1767 to 1776, for Kilkenny City from 1778 to 1783, for Fore from 1783 to 1790 and for Lanesborough from 1790 to 1793.[3] He was appointed High Sheriff of County Kilkenny for 1768-69.[4]
He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy. In a paper presented to the Academy in 1789 he calculated the population of Ireland as approximately 4 million.[5]
He died in August 1793 at Kilfane. He had married Mary Grattan, the daughter of James Grattan, the Recorder of Dublin and MP for Dublin City and the sister of Henry Grattan, the anti-union MP. They had 10 children.
References[edit]
- ^ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bushe, Gervas Parker
- ^ "The Poets of Ireland". Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ "Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke
- ^ "An Essay towards Ascertaining the Population of Ireland". JSTOR. January 1789. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- 1744 births
- 1793 deaths
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- 18th-century Anglo-Irish people
- 18th-century Irish lawyers
- Irish MPs 1761–1768
- Irish MPs 1769–1776
- Irish MPs 1776–1783
- Irish MPs 1783–1790
- Irish MPs 1790–1797
- High Sheriffs of County Kilkenny
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies
- Members of the Royal Irish Academy