of the Irish party's alliance with the whigs. Personal life On 27 August 1824 he married his first cousin once removed Mary Blake (died 1841), daughter of Major Maurice Blake, of Towerhill house, in County Mayo, and Maria O'Connor, daughter of the wealthy catholic merchant Valentine O'Connor, from a cadet branch of the O'Conor Sligo who had settled in Galway and Mary Moore. Mary's father was from a cadet branch of the Blake baronets of Menlough through a younger son of Sir Valentine Blake, 3rd Baronet. They had seven children: Jane O'Conor. A Catholic nun at Princethorp Convent. Kate O'Conor. A Catholic nun at Princethorp Convent. Josephine O'Conor. A Catholic nun at Princethorp Convent. Eugenia O'Conor. A Catholic nun at Princethorp Convent. Dionysia O'Conor. A Catholic nun at Princethorp Convent. Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don (1838-1906). Denis Maurice O'Conor (1840-1883). He was a founding member of the Reform Club and a member of Brooks's in London as well as being a member of the Stephen's Green Club in Dublin. He died on 22 July 1847. His eldest son Charles Owen succeeded him. References Notes 1794 births 1847 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Roscommon constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 Politicians from County Roscommon Denis Irish chiefs of the name Irish Repeal Association MPs