John McCausland (politician)
John McCausland was an Irish Member of Parliament.Early years
He was born in Strabane on 14 May 1735 to Oliver McCausland and Anne Jane Hamilton of Strabane.Parliament
McCausland represented County Donegal in the Parliament of Ireland from 1768 to 1776.He had married Elizabet Span, daughter of William Span in Ballmacove on 29 January 1757. They had 3 children: Oliver, William and Catherine. His daughter Catherine married William Conyngham Plunket, the crown prosecutor at the trial of Robert Emmet, later Lord Chancellor of Ireland.Death
He died in November 1804, aged 69.
