Henry Mulholland
Full name: Henry Lyle Mulholland
Alias: Henry Mulholland,
2nd Baron Dunleath,
Lord Dunleath
Alias: Henry Mulholland,
2nd Baron Dunleath,
Lord Dunleath
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Bio | Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath was an Irish Conservative Member of Parliament. Apart of that he appeared in Wimbledon several times as a player.(1879,1880 and 1881). Henry Lyle was the 2nd child and the 2nd son of Sir John Mulholland and Frances Louisa Mulholland (born Lyle). The Mulholland family were prominent in the cotton and linen industry in Ireland. He served as High Sheriff of Down in 1884. Henry Lyle was the Baron Dunleath of Ballywalter, County Down, Justice of the Peace for County Down, High Sherriff 1884, sometime Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, and formerly Major, 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles. He was formerly Member of Parliament for North Londonderry, 1885-1895. He graduated with Bachelor of Arts at Oxford University. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on April 29, 1873. He served in the Curragh, Ireland in 1877, then he relinquished commission in 1877. He was married on July 28, 1881 to Norah Louisa Fanny Ward, daughter of the Honorable Somerset Ward. The couple had 5 children. Their eldest son Captain Hon. Andrew Edward Somerset Mulholland was killed in action in the First World War. Henry Mulholland was elected to the British House of Commons for Londonderry North in 1885, a seat he held until 1895, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords. Henry Mulholland (aka Lord Dunleath) died in March 1931, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son Charles. His third son Hon. Henry became Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and was created a Baronet in 1945. Lady Dunleath died in 1935. |
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