Percy Bernard

Percy Brodrick Bernard (17 September 1844 – 18 July 1912) was an Irish Conservative Party politician who sat briefly in the House of Commons in 1880. Bernard was the son of Charles Brodrick Bernard, Bishop of Tuam, and his wife Jane Grace Dorothea Freke. He was a nephew of Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon. In 1866 Bernard was commissioned as an officer in the South Cork Light Infantry Militia. Bernard was elected as a Member of Parliament for Bandon in April 1880. He resigned in June 1880 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. Bernard lived at Freckenham, Suffolk, and died at the age of 67.