Henry Bruen (1828–1912)

Henry Bruen PC, DL (16 June 1828 – 8 March 1912)[1] was an Irish Conservative Party politician.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for County Carlow from 1857 to 1880, taking his seat in the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

[2] On 26 April 1880, shortly after his electoral defeat, he was sworn as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

Henry Bruen lived at Coolbawn, County Wexford, and at Oak Park, an estate near Carlow town which his grandfather had acquired in 1775, and which remained in the family until 1957.

In 1874 one of his daughters, Katharine Anne Bruen, married Thomas McClintock-Bunbury, 2nd Baron Rathdonnell.