William Fearon

William Robert Fearon (14 October 1892 – 27 December 1959) was an Irish politician and academic.

[1] He was a Mackinnon research student of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1921, studying biochemistry at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

[1] He was first elected to the Seanad in 1943 for the Dublin University constituency.

[2] He died while still in office, and William J. E. Jessop won the subsequent by-election.

[1] He died on 27 December 1959, aged 67, at Monkstown Hospital, Dublin; he never married.