Brockhill Newburgh

Colonel Brockhill Newburgh (c. 1659 – 11 January 1741) was an Irish politician.

He was the second son of Thomas Newburgh and his wife Mary, the daughter of Brockhill Taylor, M.P, of Ballyhaise, who had represented Cavan Borough in the Irish House of Commons.

He inherited the estate of Ballyhaise in 1697[1] on the death of his elder brother.

From 1715 until 1727, Newburgh sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for County Cavan.

His eldest son and heir was the poet Thomas Newburgh, publisher of Essays, Poetical, Moral, &c., 1769, a work that perhaps contains notes from, and is sometimes attributed to, Brockhill Newburgh.