Background
He was the son of Maurice Keatinge of Narraghmore, County Kildare, an Member of Parliament for Kildare in the Parliament of Ireland. Succeeded his father in 1777.
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Maurice Keatinge
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Maurice junior He joined the British Army as a cornet in the 3rd Dragoons in 1778 and was successively promoted to lieutenant in the 22nd Dragoons (1779), captain (1781) and then major (1782). He retired to half-pay in 1783, but later resumed his army career and further promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the 85th Foot (1794) and colonel in the 107th Foot (1794) before finally leaving the army in 1796. In 1790 he was elected an Member of Parliament for County Kildare in the Irish Parliament until the union with Great Britain in 1801, after which he represented County Kildare in the United Kingdom Parliament (1801-1802).
He was appointed High Sheriff of Kildare for 1790-1701 and 1793-1794.
He built a new mansion on his estate in Kildare which was soon afterwards burnt down by the British army in retaliation for his family"s pro-rebel sympathies in the Irish rebellion of 1798. In 1800 he translated Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s Louisiana historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España into English as The True History of the Conquest of Mexico.
In 1813 he sold his Kildare estate to Robert Latouche for £93,000 and died in Paris in 1835.
Membership
1st United Kingdom Parliament.
