PATRICK

See also:

• PATRICK DUIGENAN (1735-1816)

DUIGENAN (1735-1816)  , Irish lawyer and politician, was the son of a Leitrim Roman Catholic farmer named O'Duibhgeannain . Through the tuition of the local Protestant clergyman, who was interested in the boy, he got a scholarship in 1756 at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently became a fellow . He was called to the Irish bar in 1767 and obtained a rich practice . He is remembered, however, mainly as a politician, on account of his opposition to Grattan, his support of the Union, and his violent antagonism to Catholic emancipation . He was elected member for Armagh in the first united parliament, and was a well-known character at Westminster till he died on the r 1 th of April 1816 .