Richard More O'Ferrall

Richard More O'Ferrall (1797 – 27 October 1880) was an Irish politician, a high level British government official and a Governor of Malta.

Career

Richard More O'Ferrall was born in Moyvalley, County Kildare, Ireland, to the prestigious House of More O'Ferrall. He was the eldest son of Major Ambrose O'Ferrall (1752–1835) and his first wife, Anne Bagot.[1] He was elected to the British House of Commons in 1832, and represented the Constituencies of County Kildare from 10 December 1832 to 29 July 1847, and subsequently Longford from 21 April 1851 to 7 July 1852 and Kildare again from 28 April 1859 to 11 July 1865.

Under the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne, He entered the Government as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 1835, and remained so until 1837.

On 28 September 1839, More O'Ferrall married Matilda (died 1882), the second daughter of The 3rd Viscount Southwell, KP.[2] The couple had a son, Ambrose, and a daughter, Maria Anne.

A week after his marriage, on 4 October 1839, More O'Ferrall was appointed to the Government as First Secretary of the Royal Navy, a post he retained until June 1841, when he briefly became Secretary to the Treasury. In October 1847 he became Governor of Malta.[2] On 12 September 1851 More O'Ferrall resigned as governor, refusing to serve under Lord John Russell, whose Ecclesiastical Titles Act was designed to prevent a restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.[1]

Death

More O'Ferrall died in 1880 in Kingstown (present-day Dún Laoghaire), County Dublin.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Richard More O'Ferrall
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Sources

1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2. "Biography of Richard More O'Ferrall". pdavis.nl.

Secondary sources

• http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm
• http://www.thepeerage.com/

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard More O'Ferrall

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert La Touche and Lord William Fitzgerald	Member of Parliament for Kildare 1830–1847 With: Lord William Fitzgerald to 1831 Sir Josiah Hort, Bt 1831–1832 Edward Ruthven 1832–1837 Robert Archbold 1837–1847	Succeeded by Marquess of Kildare and Richard Southwell Bourke
Preceded by Richard Maxwell Fox and Samuel Blackall	Member of Parliament for Longford 1851–1852 With: Richard Maxwell Fox	Succeeded by Richard Maxwell Fox and Fulke Greville-Nugent
Preceded by David O'Connor Henchy and William Cogan	Member of Parliament for Kildare 1859–1865 With: William Cogan	Succeeded by Lord Otho FitzGerald and William Cogan
Political offices
Preceded by	Junior Lord of the Treasury 1835–1839	Succeeded by
Preceded by	First Secretary of the Admiralty 1839–1841	Succeeded by
Preceded by	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1841–1841	Succeeded by
Preceded by Sir Patrick Stuart	Governor of Malta 1847–1851	Succeeded by Sir William Reid