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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 913 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:HENRY See also:BROOKE See also:PARNELL See also:CONGLETON (1776-1842)  , was the second son of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Parnell, See also:bart . (1744-1801), See also:chancellor of the Irish See also:exchequer, and was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Cambridge . In 1801 he succeeded to the See also:family estates in See also:Queen's See also:county, and married a daughter of the See also:earl of See also:Portarlington; and in 1802, by his See also:father-in-See also:law's See also:interest, he was returned for Portarlington to See also:parliament, but he speedily resigned the seat . In 1806 he was returned for Queen's county, for which he sat till 1832, when he withdrew from the See also:representation . In 1833, however, he was returned for See also:Dundee; and after being twice re-elected for the same See also:city (1835 and 1837), he was raised to the See also:peerage in 1841 with the See also:title of See also:Baron See also:Congleton of Congleton . In 1842, having suffered for some See also:time from See also:ill-See also:health and See also:melancholy, he committed See also:suicide . He was a Liberal Whig, and took a prominent See also:part in the struggle of his party . In 1806 he was a See also:commissioner of the See also:treasury for See also:Ireland; it was on his See also:motion on the See also:civil See also:list that the See also:duke of See also:Wellington was defeated in 1830; in that See also:year and in 1831 he was secretary at See also:war; and from 1835 till 1841 he was paymaster of the forces and treasurer of the See also:ordnance and See also:navy . He was the author of several volumes and See also:pamphlets on matters connected with See also:financial and penal questions, the most important being that On Financial Reform, 1830 . He was succeeded as 2nd baron by his eldest son John Vesey (180 1883), who in 1829 joined the See also:Plymouth Brethren, and spent his See also:life in enthusiastic religious See also:work . He See also:left no son, and his See also:brother See also:Henry See also:William (d . 1896) became 3rd baron, being succeeded by his second son Henry (1839-1906), a soldier who See also:rose to be See also:major-See also:general .

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