Percy Dockrell

{{Short description|Irish Fine Gael politician (1914–1979)}}

{{Other people|Henry Dockrell}}

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = October 1961

| term_end = June 1977

| term_start1 = May 1951

| term_end1 = March 1957

| constituency1 = Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown

| party = Fine Gael

| birth_name = Henry Percy Dockrell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|12|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|11|22|1914|12|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Dublin, Ireland

| spouse = {{marriage|Dorothy Wadsworth Brooks|1942}}

| children = 2

| relatives = {{ubl|Maurice Dockrell (grandfather)|Maurice E. Dockrell (brother)}}

| father = Henry Morgan Dockrell

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Henry Percy Dockrell (27 December 1914 – 22 November 1979) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served for twenty years as a Teachta Dála (TD).{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Henry-Percy-Dockrell.D.1951-06-13/|title=Henry Percy Dockrell|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=21 August 2012}}

Dockrell first stood as a Fine Gael candidate for the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown constituency at the 1948 general election. He was unsuccessful, but was elected at the 1951 general election, and was re-elected at the 1954 general election. He was defeated at the 1957 general election, but regained his seat at the 1961 general election and was re-elected a further three times for the same constituency. The constituency was divided for the 1977 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=8638|title=Henry Percy Dockrell|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=21 August 2012}} He stood as a candidate for Dún Laoghaire but was not elected.

His father Henry Morgan Dockrell and his brother Maurice E. Dockrell were also Fine Gael TDs. His grandfather Sir Maurice Dockrell had been a Unionist MP before independence. On 24 September 1942 he married Dorothy Wadsworth Brooks. Percy Dockrell's two sons, John H. Dockrell and William Dockrell,[https://web.archive.org/web/19991009172720/http://www.dlrcoco.ie/CLLR.htm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council – Councillors – archived 9 October 1999][https://web.archive.org/web/20040302064617/http://www.dlrcoco.ie/cllrs/blrock.htm Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council – Blackrock Councillors – archived 2 March 2004] served as councillors on the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire, and in William's case on its successor Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council.