Henry Handcock should not be confused with Henry Hancock.
Henry Handcock | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Athlone |
Term Start: | 14 April 1856 |
Term End: | 2 April 1857 |
Predecessor: | William Keogh |
Successor: | John Ennis |
Birth Date: | 2 August 1834 |
Death Place: | India |
Death Cause: | Animal attack |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | Conservative |
Parents: | Richard Handcock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine Margaret Harris |
Henry Handcock (2 August 1834 – 1 December 1858)[1] [2] was an Irish Conservative politician.
The youngest son of Richard Hancock and Margaret née Harris, Handcock was at some point a captain in the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot.[1]
Handcock was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Athlone at a by-election in 1856—caused by the appointment of the sitting MP, William Keogh, as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas—but lost the seat less than a year later at the 1857 general election, when he was beaten by the Independent Irish Party candidate, John Ennis.[3]
Handcock died little under a year later while hunting tigers in India.[2] A report on his death, published by The Morning Chronicle, described the incident, where "the enraged animal" caused such injuries that he died within an hour, as the "most melancholy circumstances".[1]