Richard Magenis (died 1831)


Lt.-Col. Richard Magenis was an Anglo-Irish Unionist politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons and British House of Commons for Enniskillen.
Magenis represented Enniskillen in the Irish Parliament from 1790–97. Following the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, he represented Enniskillen as a Tory from 26 October 1812 to 29 January 1828.
He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Fermanagh Militia.
Magenis, whose surname is also spelt Magennis or Maginnis, was Anglo-Irish gentry, members of Magenis of Finvoy Lodge. He was the eldest son of Richard Magenis and his second wife, Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of Col. William Berkeley and sister of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne. He was the elder brother of the Very Rev. William Magenis, Dean of Kilmore.

Marriage and issue

Magenis married firstly, 1788, Lady Elizabeth Anne Cole, daughter of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen and niece of Hon. Arthur Cole-Hamilton, with whom he represented Enniskillen. They had five sons and four daughters.
Magenis married secondly, Elizabeth Callander, widow of Col. George Dashwood, and daughter of James Callander Campbell, of Craigforth, a claimant of the Campbell baronetcy. With her he had a sixth son: