Edward Tighe
Edward Tighe (1740-1801) was an Irish lawyer, writer and politician who represented a number of constituencies in the Irish House of Commons. The son of William Tighe MP for Wexford then for Wicklow, and Mary Bligh (daughter of John Bligh, Earl of Darnley), he was educated at Eton College, and St. John's College, Cambridge, and called to the English bar in 1759 and the Irish bar in 1776.[1]
Political career[]
Tighe was first elected to the Irish parliament for Belturbet, Co. Cavan, in 1763, elected for Wicklow Burrough (succeeding his brother Richard William Tighe) in 1768, then Athboy Co. Meath, from 1776(succeeding his elder brother William Tighe[2]) until 1773 when he represented Wicklow Borough again until 1797.
He married Ann Jones from Co. Westmeath and they had one son, George William Tighe (1776-1837).[3] Edward died in 1801. He was predeceased by his wife in 1792. He had two full brothers, William and Richard, and a sister, Theodosia Blachford was a prominent Methodist. He had a half-brother, Rev. Thomas Tighe and a half-sister, Barbara Sandys, from their father's second marriage to Margaret (nee Theaker).[4]
References[]
- ^ Edward Tighe C.J. Woods, Dictionary of Irish Biography.
- ^ The Tighe Family in Woodstock
- ^ 'The Collected Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe' By Mary Tighe
- ^ Family History - Tighe of Rossana, Co. Wicklow. bu Turtle Bunbury.
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