Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician and one of the most powerful figures in the British House of Commons in the 1880s.

Charles Stewart Parnell was born in County Wicklow, the third son and seventh child of John Henry Parnell , a wealthy AngloIrish landowner, and his American wife Delia Tudor Stewart of Bordentown, New Jersey, daughter of the American naval hero, Admiral Charles Stewart . There were eleven children in all five boys and six girls. Admiral Stewarts mother, Parnells greatgrandmother, belonged to the Tudor family, so Parnell had a distant relationship with the British Royal Family. John Henry Parnell himself was a cousin of one of Irelands leading aristocrats, Viscount Powerscourt, and also the grandson of a Chancellor of the Exchequer in Grattans Parliament, Sir John Parnell, who lost office in 1799 when he opposed the Act of Union.

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