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3 unusual facts about Isaac Corry


Derrymore House

It was built between 1776 and 1787 by Isaac Corry, MP for Newry for thirty years, on land he inherited from his father.

Isaac Corry

Finally in 1799 he was appointed Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Lord High Treasurer of Ireland in place of Sir John Parnell, who quarrelled violently with Pitt over the projected union, which he categorically refused to support.

In 1806 the changes in ownership of the Newry estates altered Corry's position; the lands had passed to a senior line of the Needham family and Lady Downshire, decided to return his brother General Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey at the general election.



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