Richard More O'Ferrall
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Richard More O'Ferrall was an Irish
Ireland
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 politician.

He was born in Balyna, Moyvalley, County Kildare
County Kildare
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, Ireland, the eldest son of Major Ambrose O'Ferrall (1752–1835) and his first wife, Anne Bagot.

On 28 September 1839 he married Matilda (died 1882), second daughter of Thomas Southwell, 3rd Viscount Southwell
Thomas Southwell, 3rd Viscount Southwell
Thomas Anthony Southwell, 3rd Viscount Southwell KP was an Irish peer. He became Viscount Southwell in 1796 on the death of Thomas Southwell, 2nd Viscount Southwell and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 12 September 1837....

 KP
Order of St. Patrick
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.

The couple had a son, Ambrose, and a daughter, Maria Anne.

On 12 September 1851 he resigned his seat as MP, refusing to serve under Lord John Russell, whose Ecclesiastical Titles Act was designed to prevent a restoration of a Catholic hierarchy in England.

He died in 1880 in Kingstown
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...

 (now Dun Laoghaire), County Dublin.

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