Michael McCartan

Michael McCartan was an Irish nationalist politician. He sat in the House of Commons of [the United Kingdom] from 1886 to 1902.
McCartan was born in Castlewellan, [County Down], and educated at St. Malachy's College in Belfast and then Blackrock College. He became a solicitor in 1882.
At the 1886 [United Kingdom general election|1886 general election] he was elected as the Member of Parliament for South Down (UK [Parliament constituency)|South Down]. He sat for the Irish Parliamentary Party until the split in 1890, when he joined the anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation, he rejoined the IPP when the two sides re-united in 1900.
Having been re-elected 3 times, McCartan resignation from the British [House of Commons|resigned from the House of Commons] on 1 February 1902. He died in September that year aged 51.