Lancelot Crosbie (1723 – August 1780) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

Biography

He was the son of Maurice Crosbie of Ballykealy and Catherine Sandes. He lived at Tubrid House, Ardfert, County Kerry. He entered the Middle Temple in 1743.

Lancelot Crosbie

Crosbie served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Kerry between 1759 and 1760. He then represented Ardfert from 1762 to 1776, with the backing of his first wife's family, the Crosbies.

Lancelot Crosbie

His first wife was Hon. Elizabeth Crosbie, daughter of Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Brandon and Lady Elizabeth Fitzmaurice. The couple were distant cousins. They had no children. By his second wife Mary Blennerhassett, daughter of Colonel John Blennerhassett and Jane Denny, he was the father of three children, including John Gustavus Crosbie. John, like his father, was MP for Kerry. In 1794 he caused a scandal by killing the sitting MP, Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet, in a duel. His own sudden death three years later was widely rumoured to be a revenge killing by the Dennys.

Lancelot Crosbie

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1723 births

1780 deaths

18th-century Anglo-Irish people

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Irish MPs 1727–1760

Irish MPs 1761–1768

Irish MPs 1769–1776

Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies

Members of the Middle Temple

People from Ardfert

Politicians from County Kerry