Background
Murrough O'Brien was born in 1726 to the Hon.
member of parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland
Murrough O'Brien was born in 1726 to the Hon.
James O' Brien and Mary Jephson in Drogheda. He joined the Grenadier Guards and was an officer in Germany, where he carried colours at the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747. He retired in 1756 and entered the Irish House of Commons for Clare in the following year.
He had a close relationship with King George III. His Irish seat was Rostellan, near Cork. He was a drinker, called a "'six bottle man", and a gambler. He had a zest for life.
He was a keen farmer and oversaw enclosure of lands around Taplow and mechanisation. He died after a fall from his horse in Grosvenor Square, London on 10 February 1808. The barony of Thomond became extinct.
[16th Parliament of Great Britain. 17th Parliament of Great Britain]
He represented the constituency until 1761 and sat then as Member of Parliament (MP) for Harristown until 1768.