Robert Blackwood (Irish MP)
Robert Blackwood (April 1752 – 31 January 1785), was an Anglo-Irish politician.[1]
Blackwood was the eldest son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, and Dorcas Stevenson, later Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye. He was returned to the Irish Parliament for Killyleagh in 1776, a seat he held until his death nine years later. He died in Belfast in January 1785, after a fall from his horse.[2] He never married and his younger brother James eventually succeeded their father in the baronetcy and their mother in the barony.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1195. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Complete Baronetage: Great Britain and Ireland, 1707-1800, and Jacobite, 1688-1788. W. Pollard & Company, Limited. 1906. p. 371. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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