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Henry Grattan

Henry Grattan (July 3, 1746 - June 6, 1820) was a member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late eighteenth century. He opposed the 1801 Act of Union that merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain.

Grattan served in the British House of Commons as an Irish MP in the early nineteenth century.

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