Edward Sheil was Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing the constituencies of Athlone, 1874-80, Meath, 1882-85, and South Meath, 1885-92. Sheil was the son of General Sir Justin Sheil and nephew of Richard Lalor Sheil, a political ally of Daniel O’Connell. His mother was Mary Leonora, daughter of the Rt Hon. Stephen Woulfe, an MP and afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Ireland.

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  • Edward Sheil was Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing the constituencies of Athlone, 1874-80, Meath, 1882-85, and South Meath, 1885-92. Sheil was the son of General Sir Justin Sheil and nephew of Richard Lalor Sheil, a political ally of Daniel O’Connell. His mother was Mary Leonora, daughter of the Rt Hon. Stephen Woulfe, an MP and afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Ireland. He was educated at Dr Newman’s Oratory School, and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1874, when the franchise was still very restricted, he unseated the sitting Liberal, John James Ennis, at Athlone, in a vote which was initially tied, each candidate scoring 140 votes. In 1880 Ennis won the seat back by one vote. Sheil was returned unopposed for Meath County in a by-election in April 1882 and was then returned unopposed for South Meath in 1885 and 1886. Sheil acted as Whip of the Home Rule Party for four years. In the Split in the Irish Parliamentary Party in December 1890 over the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, he supported Parnell. However, he retired from Parliament at the general election of July 1892, apparently feeling that he could no longer defend the Parnellite cause. He wrote to John Redmond on 8 February 1892: ‘I am not prepared to continue resistance to what I conceive to be Irish public opinion…, the sympathy of the great majority of electors in Ireland is with the section of the Irish Party led by Mr. McCarthy’. In retirement Sheil lived at Ramsgate, Kent, where he died on 3 July 1915 and was buried on 6 July.
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  • Edward Sheil was Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing the constituencies of Athlone, 1874-80, Meath, 1882-85, and South Meath, 1885-92. Sheil was the son of General Sir Justin Sheil and nephew of Richard Lalor Sheil, a political ally of Daniel O’Connell. His mother was Mary Leonora, daughter of the Rt Hon. Stephen Woulfe, an MP and afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Ireland.
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  • Edward Sheil
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