Maurice E. Dockrell

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Maurice Edward Dockrell (6 October 1908 – 9 December 1986) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who was elected to Dáil Éireann at ten successive general elections, serving as a Teachta Dála (TD) for thirty-four years.[1] He has been described as "a protestant with a unionist pedigree".[2]

A company director, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin South constituency at the 1943 general election, and re-elected at the 1944 general election.[3]

After constituency boundaries were redrawn in 1947, Dockrell was returned at the 1948 general election for the Dublin South-Central constituency, which re-elected him on five further elections. He was then elected twice as a TD for Dublin Central, at the 1969 and 1973 general elections. He stood for Dublin South-Central at the 1977 general election but lost his seat in the Fianna Fáil landslide of that year.

From 1960 to 1961, he was the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

His father, Henry Morgan Dockrell, and his brother, H. Percy Dockrell were also Fine Gael TDs. His grandfather, Sir Maurice Dockrell, had been a Unionist MP before independence.

His son Henry Morgan Dockrell was elected to Dublin City Council in 1967. His grandson Maurice Dockrell was co-opted onto Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in 2020,[4] making him the fifth generation of the family to serve either at Westminster, in the Oireachtas or at local level.

During a 1975 debate on reform of the country's conservative laws against contraceptives, he is alleged to have said "I'm for it, but I'm past it".

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References[]

  1. ^ "Maurice E. Dockrell". Oireachtas Members Database. 4 May 1977. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Maurice E. Dockrell". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council - Councillor Maurice Dockrell". Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
Civic offices
Preceded by Lord Mayor of Dublin
1960–1961 		Succeeded by


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