Robert Henry Kinahan

Robert Henry Kinahan
Lord Mayor of Dublin
In office
1853–1854
Preceded byJohn D'Arcy
Succeeded bySir Edward McDonnell
Personal details
Born2 October 1799
Dublin, Ireland
Died29 April 1861(1861-04-29) (aged 61)
London, England
PartyIrish Conservative Party
Spouse
Charlotte Hudson
(m. 1822)
Alma materTrinity College Dublin

Robert Henry Kinahan (2 October 1799 – 29 April 1861) was an Irish wine merchant and politician, who served as Justice of the Peace, and Lord Mayor of Dublin.[1]

Life and work

Kinahan was the son of wine merchant Daniel Kinaham and Martha (Paine).[2] He was the fourth son, with one of his elder brothers, Rev. John Kinahan served as rector of Knockbreda, County Down.[3]

He graduated M.A. at Trinity College Dublin, and served as an Alderman, Justice of the Peace, and High Sheriff (1851).[4] He held the office of Lord Mayor of Dublin between 1853 and 1854.[5][6]

On 11 December 1822, he married Charlotte Hudson in Rathfarnham.[7] Their son Edward Kinahan (1828–1892) was the first Baronet Hudson-Kinahan of Glenville, County Cork.[8] Another daughter, Frances Alicia Kinahan (1824–1909), married London surgeon Armstrong Todd.[9]

Kinahan died in London on 29 April 1861, and was buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Dublin Markets" (PDF). Law Reform Commission.
  2. ^ Kinahan, Jack (2007). "Kinahan's LL,: A Forgotten Dublin Whisky". Dublin Historical Record. 60 (2): 151–160. ISSN 0012-6861. JSTOR 30101677.
  3. ^ Ireland, Juvenile association for promoting the education of the deaf and dumb poor of (1832). The fifth (-thirteenth) annual report.
  4. ^ Visitation of Ireland, p.36
  5. ^ Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack. 1842.
  6. ^ "Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2024" (PDF). Dublin City Council. December 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  7. ^ Walford, Edward (1893). The Windsor Peerage for 1890-1894.
  8. ^ Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage Together with Memoirs of the Privy Councillors and Knights. Harrison and Sons.
  9. ^ The Belfast Newsletter 13 Aug 1852: Page 2: Marriages
  10. ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1898). Visitation of Ireland. Priv. print.