Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet

Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet
Ann French, wife of Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet.

Sir Lucius Henry O'Brien, 3rd Baronet PC (Ire) (2 September 1731 – 15 January 1795) was an Irish baronet and politician for 34 years.

He was a man of quite different parts to his father, an intellectual, a Greek and Latin scholar and a brilliant politician. He entered S.C. at Trinity College Dublin, on 9 July 1748, at the age of sixteen. He became a B.A. Vernon in 1752. Joined the Irish bar in 1758, and succeeded his father, as 3rd Baronet of Dromoland, becoming a Privy councillor and M.P.[1]

  1. ^ O'Brien, Donough (1949). History of the O'Briens from Brian Boroimhe, AD. 1000 to AD. 1945. Batsford. p. 215. Retrieved 11 October 2021.]