John Edward Redmond (1806-1865)

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John Edward Redmond was Liberal M.P. for the city of Wexford from 1859-1865. He came from a family which had been associated with County Wexford for seven hundred years and had at one time owned the property now known as Loftus Hall on the Hook peninsula as well as being involved in banking and shipping in Wexford town.

John Redmond was a banker and magistrate. He was in favour of extension of the franchise to 'those who by education and intelligence are entitled to enjoy it'; of the removal of 'all religious disabilities'; and of the passing of laws securing for the tenant 'full compensation for the outlay of capital'. Unlike later members of his family he did not advocate any form of independence or Home Rule for Ireland.

His memorial stands in Redmond Square near Wexford railway station. These words are inscribed on the pedestal: 'my heart is with the city of Wexford. Nothing can extinguish that love but the cold soil of the grave'.

His nephew William Archer Redmond sat for Wexford as a Home Rule Party M.P. from 1872-1880.

John Redmond was the great-uncle of the later John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and of his brother William Hoey Kearney Redmond.