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About William Goulding
- William Goulding (15 November 1817 – 8 December 1884) was an Irish Conservative Party politician from Cork.
- He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1876 to 1880. At the general election in February 1874, he was stood unsuccessfully as a candidate in Cork City, where both seats were won by nationalist Repeal Association candidates.
- After the Home Rule League MP Joseph Ronayne died in May 1876, the nationalist vote at the resulting by-election was split between two candidates for the single seat, and Goulding won the seat in the House of Commons.
- However, at the 1880 general election, nationalists fielded only two candidates for Cork's two seats, and Goulding was defeated. He stood again at the by-election in February 1884 after the resignation of John Daly, but was defeated again.
- Two Conservatives candidates contested Cork City at the 1885 general election, and one Unionist candidate stood at the by-election in 1891, but Goulding was the last Conservative or Unionist to be elected as MP for Cork City.After his death in 1884, a stained glass window representing the Good Shepherd was erected to his memory on the east wall of Taney parish church in Dundrum, County Dublin.
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