Matthew Peter D'Arcy (18 June 1821 – 28 November 1889)[1] was an Irish Liberal politician.
After receiving a MA from Trinity College, Dublin,[3] he first married Emma Knaresborough, daughter of William and Maria (née Corballis) Knaresborough in 1853, and they had three children: John Francis Aloysius (1854–1874); William Matthew Joseph (born 1855); and James Frederick Herbert (1857–1918).
After Emma's death in 1858, he remarried to Christina Margaret Daly, daughter of James Peter and Margaret (née Dolphin) Daly, in 1860.
[2] D'Arcy was elected at the 1868 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Wexford.
[4][2] D'Arcy was also a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant and, in 1872, a High Sheriff of Dublin City.