John Vance (MP)

John Vance (10 December 1808 – 21 September 1875) was a Conservative MP for Dublin City from 1852 until his defeat in 1865.

Vance was born in Dublin to a family with strong connections to County Tyrone; they are believed to have emigrated from Scotland in the eighteenth century.

[2] The Times reports Vance's address to the electors as all that the Protestant Party could reasonably or unreasonably desire.

[3] On Vance's defeat, the Cork Examiner stated that Pim typified Dublin's reformation from "unlightened and unadorned Orangeism".

"[5] The slogan was popularized by John Bright to oppose the first Irish Home Rule Bill 1886 a decade after Vance's death.