Henry PRITTIE M.P. 1
- Born: 1708, Nenagh, Co Tipperary , Ireland 1
- Marriage (1): Deborah O'NEALE in 1736 1
- Died: 1768, Ireland aged 60 1
General Notes:
1761-1768 MP Co Tipperary.
Deborah Bunbury's father was Henry Prittie (1708 – 1768), whose father was granted lands in Ormond, Co Tipperary, by Charles II in 1678. During his 1720s and 1730s, he and his father had endeavoured to establish a lead mining trade in their lands in the once appropriately named Silvermines mountains. From 1730, the mines were left in abeyance until 1802 when the Dunalley Mining Company was formed with the intention of exploiting the ore there and in other placed. In 1761, Henry topped the electoral poll to become MP for Co Tipperary, retaining the seat until his death aged 60 in 1768. As a magistrate, he clearly tended towards the no-nonsense school of Protestant thought. At the Clonmel assizes of June 1762, for instance, he was one of 27 leading landowners to offer a £20 reward for the discovery and prosecution of 'each of the first three Papists guilty of carrying arms in said county'. He lived at Kilboy, Co Tipperary. He was also an uncle of Viscount Clanwilliam. The Prittie papers (also called the Dunalley Papers) are held by the National Library of Ireland.
Henry married Deborah O'NEALE, daughter of Rev. Dr. Benjamin O'NEALE and Hannah PAUL, in 1736.1 (Deborah O'NEALE was born in 1702 in Ireland 2, christened on 7 Apr 1703 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 2 and died in 1777.)
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