Percy Dockrell | |
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| Teachta Dála | |
| In office October 1961 – June 1977 | |
| In office May 1951 – March 1957 | |
| Constituency | Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Percy Dockrell 27 December 1914 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 22 November 1979 (aged 64) Dublin, Ireland |
| Political party | Fine Gael |
| Spouse |
Dorothy Wadsworth Brooks
(m. 1942) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent |
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| Relatives |
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Henry Percy Dockrell (27 December 1914 – 22 November 1979) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served for twenty years as a Teachta Dála (TD).[1]
Dockrell first stood as a Fine Gael candidate for the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown constituency at the 1948 general election. He was unsuccessful, but was elected at the 1951 general election, and was re-elected at the 1954 general election. He was defeated at the 1957 general election, but regained his seat at the 1961 general election and was re-elected a further three times for the same constituency. The constituency was divided for the 1977 general election.[2] He stood as a candidate for Dún Laoghaire but was not elected.
His father Henry Morgan Dockrell and his brother Maurice E. Dockrell were also Fine Gael TDs. His grandfather Sir Maurice Dockrell had been a Unionist MP before independence. On 24 September 1942 he married Dorothy Wadsworth Brooks. Percy Dockrell's two sons, John H. Dockrell and William Dockrell,[3][4] served as councillors on the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire, and in William's case on its successor Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council.