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The Lord Rathmore | |
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| Paymaster General | |
| In office 24 March 1880 – 21 April 1880 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Beaconsfield |
| Preceded by | Sir Stephen Cave |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Wolverton |
| First Commissioner of Works | |
| In office 24 June 1885 – 28 January 1886 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Rosebery |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Morley |
| In office 5 August 1886 – 11 August 1892 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Elgin |
| Succeeded by | George Shaw-Lefevre |
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| Born | (1838-12-03)3 December 1838 |
| Died | 22 August 1919(1919-08-22) (aged 80) |
| Resting place | Putney Vale Cemetery, London 51°26′27″N0°14′19″W / 51.440739°N 0.238533°W /51.440739; -0.238533 |
| Party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron RathmorePC,QC (3 December 1838 – 22 August 1919) was an Irish lawyer andConservative politician.
Plunket was the third son ofJohn Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket, second son ofWilliam Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket,Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His mother was Charlotte, daughter ofCharles Kendal Bushe,Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, while the Most ReverendWilliam Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket,Archbishop of Dublin, was his elder brother. He was educated atTrinity College Dublin[1] and was called to theIrish Bar in 1862.[citation needed]
After practising on theMunsterCircuit for a number of years,[citation needed] Plunket was made aQueen's Counsel in 1868, and becameLaw Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that same year. In 1870, he was electedConservative Member of Parliament forDublin University, and wasSolicitor General for Ireland underBenjamin Disraeli from 1875 to 1877. He was then brieflyPaymaster General under Disraeli (then known as the Earl of Beaconsfield) in 1880 and was sworn of thePrivy Council the same year.[2] In 1885 he becameFirst Commissioner of Works inLord Salisbury's first ministry, a post he held until January 1886. He resumed the same post in August of the same year when the Conservatives returned to power, and held it until 1892. On his retirement from theHouse of Commons in 1895 he was elevated to the peerage asBaron Rathmore, of Shanganagh in theCounty of Dublin.[3]
Apart from his political and legal career he was a director of theSuez Canal Company, Chairman of theNorth London Railway for many years and a director of theCentral London Railway at its opening in 1900..[citation needed]
InDublin, Rathmore was a member of theKildare Street Club.[4] He died in August 1919, unmarried, at the age of eighty, in the Railway Hotel inGreenore,County Louth[citation needed] and is buried atPutney Vale Cemetery in London. His peerage became extinct at his death.
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forDublin University 1870–1895 With:John Thomas Ball 1870–1875 Edward Gibson 1875–1885 Hugh Holmes 1885–1887 Dodgson Hamilton Madden 1887–1892 Edward Carson 1892–1895 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Paymaster General 1880 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | First Commissioner of Works 1885–1886 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | First Commissioner of Works 1886–1892 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Solicitor General for Ireland 1875–1877 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Rathmore 1895–1919 | Extinct |
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