Percy Dockrell
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(Henry) Percy Dockrell (27th December 1914–22nd November 1979) was an Irish Fine Gael party politician who served for twenty years as a TD.
Percy Dockrell was first elected to the 14th Dáil in the 1951 general election for the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency, and was re-elected in the 1954 election. Defeated in the 1957 election, he regained his seat in 1961 and was re-elected a further three times for the same constituency until he was defeated in the 1977 general election.
His father, Henry Morgan Dockrell, and his brother, Maurice E. Dockrell were also Fine Gael TDs. His grandfather, Sir Maurice Dockrell, had been a Unionist MP before independence.
Percy's two sons, John H Dockrell and William Dockrell served as councillors on the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire a predecessor of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
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