Stephen De Vere | |
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High Sheriff of County Limerick | |
In office 1870 | |
Preceded by | Edward William O'Brien of Cahermoyle |
Succeeded by | Desmond John Edmund FitzGerald, 26th Knight of Glin |
Member of Parliament for County Limerick | |
In office 1854–1859 | |
Preceded by | Wyndham Goold |
Succeeded by | Samuel Auchmuty Dickson |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 July 1812 |
Died | 10 November 1904 Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland |
Resting place | Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland |
Political party | Whig |
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Sir Stephen Edward De Vere, 4th Baronet (26 July 1812 – 10 November 1904)[1] was an Anglo-Irish, Whig Party, Member of Parliament for County Limerick, who in the Famine year 1847 bore personal witness to the conditions aboard the "coffin ships" that carried Irish emigrants to North America, and who converted to Roman Catholicism.