Patrick Fullam

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2017}} {{Short description|Irish politician (1847–1924)}} '''Patrick Fullam'''<ref>Referred to as "Patrick Fulham" by Walker (1978) and The Times. In his 1901 and 1911 census return and on his death cert, Fullham is used.</ref> (1847 – 18 January 1924)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231437/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm |archive-date=10 August 2009 |title=Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "M", part 2 |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |url-status=usurped |accessdate=14 December 2009}}</ref><ref>Headstone inscription from Donore Hill graveyard, listed by Slane History and Archaeological Society {{cite web |url=http://www.slanehistoricalsociety.com/index.php/headstone-inscriptions/28-donore-hill |title=Donore Hill Graveyard |accessdate=2013-06-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131005115629/http://www.slanehistoricalsociety.com/index.php/headstone-inscriptions/28-donore-hill |archivedate=5 October 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> was an Irish nationalist politician who served briefly in the 1890s as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Meath, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

== Political career == At the 1892 general election, Fullam stood as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate in South Meath, and in a two-way contest with a Parnellite candidate he won the seat by the narrow margin of 2,212 votes to 2199.<ref name="walker-1801-1922">{{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 = 131 }}</ref> However, the result was voided after an electoral petition,<ref>Walker, op. cit., page 148</ref> and at the resulting by-election on 17 February 1893, Jeremiah Jordan was elected in his place.<ref>Walker, op. cit., page 150</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 26376 |date= 24 February 1893 |page=1063 }}</ref>

He died, a farmer, in Donore, County Meath on 18 January 1924.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/00f8af9504307|title=General Registrar's Office|last=|first=|date=|website=IrishGenealogy.ie|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-patrick-fullam | Patrick Fullam }}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for South Meath | years = 1892 – 1893 | before = Edward Sheil | after = Jeremiah Jordan }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fulham, Patrick}} Category:1847 births Category:1924 deaths Category:Anti-Parnellite MPs Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Meath constituencies (1801–1922) Category:Politicians from County Meath Category:UK MPs 1892–1895