James Gibney

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2018}} '''James Gibney''' (14 December 1847 – 25 May 1908)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm |title=Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "M", part 2 |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |accessdate=21 December 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231437/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm |archive-date=10 August 2009 }}</ref> was an Irish Nationalist politician. An Anti-Parnellite, he was an Irish National Federation Member of Parliament (MP) for North Meath from 1893 to 1900.

He was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons at a by-election on 21 February 1893, after the result of the 1892 general election in North Meath was overturned on petition<ref name="walker-1801-1922a">{{cite book | title = Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922 | editor = Brian M. Walker | publisher = Royal Irish Academy | location = Dublin | year = 1978 | isbn = 0-901714-12-7 | page = 150 }}</ref> at the next general election, in 1895, Gibney was re-elected with a narrow majority over the Parnellite candidate John Sweetman.<ref>Walker, op. cit., page 155</ref> At the 1900 general election, when the Irish Parliamentary Party reunited after its 9-year split, Gibney stood as a Healyite Nationalist and lost seat to the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate Patrick White.<ref>Walker, op. cit., page 162</ref> Gibney was also a justice of the peace for County Meath.<ref name="TIWW" />

==Personal life== Gibney was born on 14 December 1847 at Beltrasna, Oldcastle, the son of Thomas Gibney. He married firstly Bridget Hennesy (d. 1895), daughter of John Hennesy, Millbrook Mills, Oldcastle, and Castlepollard; and secondly Catharine O'Brien, daughter of Michael O'Brien, Oldtown, Navan. He had issue of two sons and two daughters.<ref name="TIWW">{{cite TIWW |article=Gibney, James |page=91 }}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for North Meath | years = 1893 – 1900 | before = Michael Davitt | after = Patrick White }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gibney, James}} Category:1847 births Category:1908 deaths Category:Anti-Parnellite MPs Category:UK MPs 1892–1895 Category:UK MPs 1895–1900 Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Meath constituencies (1801–1922)