Background
He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.
He was the only son of Richard Francis Blennerhassett and his wife Honoria Ponsonby, daughter of William Carrique Ponsonby.
Blennerhassett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Christ Church, Oxford.
Blennerhassett was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878, and in April 1894 became bencher and a King"s Counsel. He was a Justice of the Peace for Kerry. They had one son.
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In a by-election in 1872, he entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Kerry until 1885.