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PATRICK DUIGENAN (1735-1816)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATRICK See also:DUIGENAN (1735-1816)  , Irish lawyer and politician, was the son of a See also:Leitrim See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:farmer named O'Duibhgeannain . Through the tuition of the See also:local See also:Protestant clergyman, who was interested in the boy, he got a scholarship in 1756 at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and subsequently became a See also:fellow . He was called to the Irish See also:bar in 1767 and obtained a See also:rich practice . He is remembered, however, mainly as a politician, on See also:account of his opposition to See also:Grattan, his support of the See also:Union, and his violent antagonism to Catholic emancipation . He was elected member for See also:Armagh in the first See also:united See also:parliament, and was a well-known See also:character at See also:Westminster till he died on the r 1 th of See also:April 1816 .

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