Co Dublin, Dublin, handwritten receipt, 3 February 1785, ‘Received from David La Touche Esq & Sons, Five Hundred and Seventy Pounds for the use of The Right Honorable Henry Grattan’, ‘Paid’ at lower centre. Small hole in centre, otherwise good very fine €80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bob Blake Collection of Irish Banknotes.

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Henry Grattan (1746-1821) entered the Irish Parliament in 1775. Appointed a privy counsellor in 1783, he opposed the Act of Union but subsequently served as the Whig MP for Malton, 1805-6, and for Dublin City, 1806-20