Jeremiah Jordan

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1892, and from 1893 to 1910, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

[1] He is buried in Aghavea Church of Ireland churchyard, situated about 3 miles outside the village of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh.

The local branch of the UIL in Enniskillen which was largely dominated by working-class members was disaffiliated after it criticised merchants who dominated nationalist politics in the town – notably Jeremiah Jordan and his successor, Patrick Crumley – for decorating shops with Union Jacks and subscribing to a military monument.

[4] When the Irish Party split in 1891 over the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, Jordan was the first Nationalist MP to call for Parnell's resignation, partly because of his close association with the English Methodist spokesman Hugh Price Hughes.

[6] However, the election in South Meath was voided after an electoral petition,[7] and at the resulting by-election on 17 February 1893, Jordan won the seat[8] in a close contest with the Parnellite candidate.