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About Henry Maxwell
Henry Maxwell PC(I) was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician and political writer. He was one of the most influential and active figures in the Irish House of Commons during his lifetime, and was among the most prominent early eighteenth-century advocates of a union between England and Ireland. While he defended the principle of Poynings' Law in his writings, he was an occasional critic of its operation in parliament.
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- politician, philosopher
- Born
- 1669
- Died
- February 12, 1730