Vincent Scully (MP)
{{Short description|Irish politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
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|name = Vincent Scully
|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|QC|MP}}
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|office = Member of Parliament
for County Cork
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|term_start = 10 May 1859
|term_end = 29 July 1865
|predecessor = Rickard Deasy
Alexander McCarthy
|alongside = Nicholas Leader (1861–1865)
Rickard Deasy (1859–1861)
|successor = George Richard Barry
Nicholas Leader
|term_start2 = 22 March 1852
|term_end2 = 10 April 1857
|predecessor2 = Edmond Roche
Maurice Power
|alongside2 = Rickard Deasy (1855–1857)
Edmond Roche (1852–1855)
|successor2 = Rickard Deasy
Alexander McCarthy
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|birth_date = 8 January 1810
|birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1871|06|04|1810|01|08}}
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|nationality = Irish
|party = Liberal
|otherparty = Whig (until 1859)
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Vincent Scully, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|QC|MP}} (8 January 1810 – 4 June 1871),{{Rayment-hc|c|5|date=February 2018}} was an Irish Liberal and Whig politician.
He was first elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Cork at a by-election in 1852, and retained it in the general election later that year, but lost the seat at the following general election in 1857. He regained the seat in 1859 before losing it again in 1865.{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127}} While an MP during the former years, Scully produced a number of pamphlets on the Irish land question, including Free Trade in Land (published 1853). He also introduced the 'Transfer of Land Bill (Ireland)' to the House of Commons in 1853, which was "praised for its ingenuity".{{cite DNB|wstitle=Scully, Denys|last=O'Donoghue|first=David James|authorlink=David James O'Donoghue|volume=51}}
Scully was educated at Oscott College, where he was one of the editors of The Oscotian from 1826. He also attended Trinity College Dublin and Trinity College, Cambridge but did not graduate from either of the universities.
In 1833, he was called to the Irish Bar, and in 1840 he became a Queen's Counsel.
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Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies
Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cork constituencies (1801–1922)
Category:Irish Liberal Party MPs
Category:19th-century King's Counsel
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