Henry Bligh Fortescue Parnell, 5th Baron Congleton (6 September 1890 – 10 November 1914) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and aristocrat of the British peerage.

[1] At the age of 24, he was killed in action in the Ypres Salient, becoming the second British parliamentarian to die on the front line during the First World War.

His grandfather Henry William Parnell, 3rd Baron Congleton, was an officer in the Royal Navy who took part in the Battle of Navarino against the Ottomans in 1827.

The project struggled to find funding, and as Stackhouse left for the South Seas in August 1914, the First World War broke out and Parnell was mobilised.

His youngest brother William Alastair Damer Parnell was also killed in the war, dying at Lesboeufs in the Battle of the Somme in France on 25 September 1916.