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ARTICLES RELATED TO Henry Grattan - Bibliography | | | |  Henry Grattan - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Henry Grattan - Grattan's ParliamentOne of the first acts of Grattan's parliament was to prove its loyalty to England by passing a vote for the support of 20,000 sailors for the navy. Grattan was loyal to the crown and the English connection. He was, however, anxious for moderate parliamentary reform, and, unlike Flood, he favored Catholic emancipation. It was evident that without reform the Irish House of Commons would not be able to make much use of its newly-won independence. Though now free from constitutional control, it was still subject to the influence of corruption, w ...
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| | | | Henry Grattan - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Henry Grattan - Death and Legacy In the following summer, after crossing from Ireland to London when out of health to bring forward the Catholic question once more, he became seriously ill. On his death-bed he spoke generously of Castlereagh, and with warm eulogy of his former rival, Flood. He died on the 6th of June 1820, and was buried in Westminster Abbey close to the tombs of Pitt and Fox. His statue is in the outer lobby of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. Grattan had married in 1782 Henrietta Fitzgerald, a lady descended from the ancient family of D ...
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| | | | Henry Grattan - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Henry Grattan - Rebellion and Union At this time religious animosity had almost died out in Ireland, and men of different faiths were ready to combine for common political objects. Thus the Presbyterians of the north, who were mainly republican in sentiment, combined with a section of the Roman Catholics to form the organization of the United Irishmen, to promote revolutionary ideas imported from France; and a party prepared to welcome a French invasion soon came into existence. Thus stimulated, the increasing disaffection culminated in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, whic ...
See also:Henry Grattan, Henry Grattan - Early Life, Henry Grattan - In the Irish Parliament, Henry Grattan - Grattan's Parliament, Henry Grattan - Rebellion and Union, Henry Grattan - In the British Parliament, Henry Grattan - Death and Legacy, Henry Grattan - Bibliography, Henry Grattan - Reference Read more here: » Henry Grattan: Encyclopedia II - Henry Grattan - Rebellion and Union |
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| | | | Henry Grattan - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Henry Grattan - In the British Parliament For the next five years Grattan took no active part in public affairs; it was not till 1805 that he became a member of the parliament of the United Kingdom. He modestly took his seat on one of the back benches, till Fox brought him forward, exclaiming, "This is no place for the Irish Demosthenes!" His first speech was on the Catholic question and all agreed with the description of his speech by the Annual Register as one of the most brilliant and eloquent ever made within the walls of parliament. When Fox and William Grenville came in ...
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