John Bodkin’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British Member of Parliament (died 1882)
Was Politician 
From United Kingdom 
Great Britain 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 1801
Death 1882
(aged 81 years)
Politics Whigs

John James Bodkin (c. 1801 – January 1882) was an Irish Whig politician.

Bodkin was first elected Whig MP for Galway Borough at the 1831 general election, but stepped down at the next election in 1832. In 1835, he was returned for Galway County and then held this seat until 1847, when he did not seek re-election.

He lived at Kilclooney, County Galway, and was a Justice of the peace and a Deputy lieutenant.

His elder daughter Eliza Mary Bodkin (d.1902) was married to Lewis George Dive, of Milwich, Staffordshire.

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