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In 1870 , Plunket was elected Conservative Member Of Parliament for Dublin University , and was Solicitor General For Ireland from 1875 to 1877 . He was then briefly Paymaster General in 1880 , and in 1885 he became First Commissioner Of Works in Lord Salisbury's first ministry, resuming office after a short interval when the Conservatives returned to power the following year. He sat in the Cabinet until 1892 , and on his retirement in 1895 he was created Baron Rathmore, of Shanganagh in County Dublin . A director of the Suez Canal Company as well as Chairman of the North London Railway for many years, Lord Rathmore died, unmarried, at the age of 80 in a hotel in Greenore, County Louth . His Peerage became extinct at his death. |
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