He worked for a time in his family"s fruit merchant business in Dublin, before moving to Liverpool and setting up a similar business there. He later became a property developer. In 1888, he resigned his seat, citing ill-health.
There are no recorded contributions by him in the House of Commons.
He died in New Brighton in 1908.
He became active in Liverpool politics as a representative of the Irish National Party, becoming a member of Liverpool City Council. He was a personal friend of the party leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, who persuaded him to run for Parliament in South Longford, for which he was elected in 1885.
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