John Corry M.P. (1667 - 1726)

Born 8 Jan 1667 in Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Leslie) Corry — married Feb 1701 in Ulster, Ireland

Descendants

Died 11 Nov 1726 at age 59 in Ireland

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Biography

John Corry born in 1667, the son of Colonel James Corry and his first wife Sarah Anketill, daughter of Captain Oliver Anketill.

Corry was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin.

On 7 February 1702, he married Sarah Leslie, daughter of William Leslie. They had four daughters and four sons. His only surviving son Leslie was a Member of Parliament for Killybegs.

Corry became High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1711. In the same year, he contested successfully a by-election for Enniskillen and was a member of the Irish House of Commons until 1713. In 1719, Corry was returned for Fermanagh, the same constituency his father had represented before, and held that position until his death in 1726.

Sources

• "The history of the two Ulster manors of Finagh, in the county of Tyrone, and Coole, otherwise manor Atkinson, in the county of Fermanagh, and of their owners"

• "Parliamentary memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885" by Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl of Belmore publ 1887 p 54, 346 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnkd4p;view=1up;seq=61 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnkd4p;view=1up;seq=354

• Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexander by Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D. 1877. Glasgow, Scotland: William Paterson. Vol. II, p. 69

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Corry