Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan PC, was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832, during which time he recanted his Orange Order opposition to Catholic emancipati
Brownlow House
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, also known as the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that removed the sacramental tests that barred Roman Catholics
Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan
…that the property qualification for the electoral franchise in Ireland be raised five-fold to the English ten pound level. In 1829, the year of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, Brownlow gave the Rev. W.O. O'Brien land for a church in the townland of Derry. His plea for the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland may have…
Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution by William Heath. Heath portrays Peel and Wellington as the murderers Burke and Hare, killing the constitution (aged 141, ie. born in 1688.