Matthew Corbally

{{short description|Politician, died 1870}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use British English|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Matthew Corbally |honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} |alt = |caption = |office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Meath (UK Parliament constituency)|Meath]] |parliament = |majority = |term_start = 10 June 1842 |term_end = 25 November 1870 |predecessor = [[Daniel O'Connell]] [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] |alongside = [[Edward McEvoy]] ([[1855 Meath by-election|1855]]–1871) [[Frederick Lucas]] ([[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852]]–1855) [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] ([[1842 Meath by-election|1842]]–[[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852]]) |successor = [[Edward McEvoy]] [[John Martin (Young Irelander)|John Martin]] |term_start2 = 4 February 1840 |term_end2 = 9 July 1841 |predecessor2 = [[Morgan O'Connell]] [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] |alongside2 = [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] |successor2 = [[Daniel O'Connell]] [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] |birth_date = April 1797 |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1870|11|25|1797|04}} |death_place = |resting_place = Saint Colmcille's Church, [[Skryne]], [[County Meath]] |party = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] |other_party = [[Independent Irish Party|Independent Irish]] (1852–1859) [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] (before 1852) |children = Mary Margaret Stourton, Baroness Stourton |parents = Elias Corbally, Mary Keogh |spouse = {{marriage|Matilda Margaret Preston|16 June 1842}} }}

'''Matthew Elias Corbally''' (April 1797 – 25 November 1870)<ref>{{Rayment-hc|m|2|date=February 2018}}</ref><ref name="stourton">{{cite book|author1=Stourton, Charles|authorlink1=Charles Stourton, 24th Baron Mowbray|title=The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts|date=1899|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=9785880603800|page=709|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAARAwAAQBAJ&q=matthew+elias+corbally&pg=PA709}}</ref><ref name="burke"/><ref name="dods"/> was an [[Ireland|Irish]] [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]], [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] and [[Independent Irish Party]] politician.<ref name="1842election">{{cite news|title=Election News|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000418/18420618/011/0003|accessdate=2 March 2018|work=Cambridge Independent Press|date=18 June 1842|location=[[Cambridgeshire]]|page=3|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Family== Corbally was the son of Elias Corbally and Mary née Keogh.<ref name="stourton"/><ref name="burke"/> He married Matilda Margaret Preston, daughter of [[Jenico Preston, 12th Viscount Gormanston]] (1775–1860) and Margaret Southwell, in 1842.<ref name="burke"/><ref name="dods"/> They had one child, Mary Margaret Corbally (1845–1925), who married [[Alfred Stourton, 23rd Baron Mowbray|Alfred Stourton, Baron Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton]] and had ten children. They lived at Corbalton Hall in [[County Meath]].<ref name="thepeerage">{{cite web|title=Matthew Elias Corbally|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p6118.htm#i61175|website=The Peerage|accessdate=3 March 2018}}</ref> Corbally and his wife are buried in a sealed vault at Saint Colmcille's Church, [[Skryne]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Morris|first1=Louis|title=A history of Saint Colmcille's Church, Skryne|url=http://www.rathfeigh-historical-society.org/cms_admin/plugins/innovaeditor/assets/A%20History%20of%20St%20Colmcille's%20Church%20Skryne.pdf|website=Rathfeigh Historical Society|accessdate=3 March 2018}}</ref>

==Education==

He was educated by Rev. Richard Norris in Drogheda, and then at [[Trinity College Dublin]].<ref>''Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College in the University of Dublin]] (1593–1860)'', [[George Dames Burtchaell]]/[[Thomas Ulick Sadleir]] p. 178: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935</ref>

==Political career== Corbally was first elected unopposed as a Whig-[[Radicals (UK)|Radical]] MP for [[Meath (UK Parliament constituency)|Meath]] at [[1840 Meath by-election|a by-election in 1840]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Meath|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000393/18400201/034/0004|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=Gloucestershire Chronicle|date=1 February 1840|page=4|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> but he did not stand for re-election at the next [[1841 United Kingdom general election|general election in 1841]]. When [[Daniel O'Connell]] was elected for both Meath and [[County Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|County Cork]] a [[1842 Meath by-election|by-election]] was called at which Corbally was again elected as a Whig unopposed.<ref name="1842election"/><ref>{{cite news|title=The Globe states that Mr. Matthew Elias Corbally, who declined|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/28th-may-1842/11/the-globe-states-that-mr-matthew-elias-corbally-wh|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[The Spectator]]|date=28 May 1842|page=11}}</ref> He then held the seat for the remainder of his life in 1870, joining the Independent Irish Party shortly after the [[1852 United Kingdom general election|general election in 1852]] and joining the Liberal Party when it was formed in 1859.<ref name="walker">{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127}}</ref> He was a supporter of the abolition of tithes, reform of corporations, and reform of the ballot, and was opposed to privileges being given to the [[Bank of Ireland]].<ref name="dods"/>

==Other activities== Corbally was also a [[Justice of the Peace]] and, in 1838, he was [[High Sheriff of Meath]].<ref name="burke">{{cite book|author1=Burke, John|author2=Burke, Bernard|authorlink1=John Burke (author)|authorlink2=Bernard Burke|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 1|date=2009|publisher=[[Henry Colburn]]|page=263|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8fTAAAAMAAJ&q=matthew+elias+corbally&pg=PA263|accessdate=3 March 2018}}</ref> He was also a captain in the [[Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)|Royal Meath Regiment]].<ref name="dods">{{cite book|author1=Dod, Charles Roger|author2=Dod, Robert Phipps|authorlink1=Charles Roger Dod|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Volume 15|date=1847|publisher=[[Dods Parliamentary Companion]]|location=[[London]]|page=150|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1MNAAAAYAAJ&q=matthew+elias+corbally&pg=PA150}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-matthew-corbally | Mr Matthew Corbally}}

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{{s-bef| before = [[Morgan O'Connell]] |before2 = [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] }} {{s-ttl| | title = Member of Parliament for [[Meath (UK Parliament constituency)|Meath]] | years = [[1840 Meath by-election|1840]] – [[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841]] |with = [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]] }} {{s-aft| after = [[Daniel O'Connell]] |after2= [[Henry Grattan (junior)|Henry Grattan]]}}

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