Background
A scion of the landed gentry of Ireland, O'Gorman was born in Kilkenny, the son of the successful barrister Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman QC, who was the Secretary of Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association.
politician Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
A scion of the landed gentry of Ireland, O'Gorman was born in Kilkenny, the son of the successful barrister Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman QC, who was the Secretary of Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association.
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He was elected only once, in the United Kingdom general election, 1874, and served until 1880. There he graduated BA in law in 1840. On 3 February 1843 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
On 9 December 1845 he transferred to the 90th Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) as a Lieutenant and was promoted Captain on 2 April 1852. He served in the Crimean War from 1854 to 1855, and on 17 August 1855 sold his commission. In March 1875, barely a year after his election to the House of Commons, he was caricatured by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini) in the London Vanity Fair magazine as "The Joker for Waterford".
O'Gorman died at Springfield, County Kilkenny, in November 1888. They settled at Bellevue, in County Clare. He was later a Brigadier-General.
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O'Gorman served as one of Waterford's two Home Rule League members of parliament from February 1874 until 1880.