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Henry Brooke Parnell Congleton

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CONGLETON, HENRY BROOKE PARNELL, IST BARON (I 7 76-1842 ), was the second son of Sir John Parnell. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. From 1806-32, he was re turned to parliament for Queen's county, and from 1833-37 for Dundee. He was raised to the peerage in 1841 as Baron Congle ton of Congleton, but in 1842, he committed suicide. He was a liberal Whig, being commissioner of the treasury for Ireland in 18o6, secretary at war in 183o-31 and paymaster of the forces and treasurer of the ordnance and navy from 1835-41. His most important treatise is that On Financial Reform (183o).