biography text
Westenra was returned on his father’s interest for the county, displacing one of the sitting Members unopposed. He supported government silently in his first Parliament, voting in their majorities on the case of Wyndham Quin, 29 Mar., and against Tierney’s censure motion, 18 May 1819. Votes against the Irish window tax, 5 May 1819, and against the foreign enlistment bill, 10 and 21 June 1819, were his only known minorities. He had voted against Catholic relief on 3 May. On the eve of the election of 1820, government ignored a threat by his father to desert them with his son, who by marriage had acquired an interest in Scottish elections, if they did not make him a representative peer. He died 1 Dec. 1860.