 As a Pro-Parnellite he subsequently lost his seat to an Anti-Parnellite in the 1892 general election, but won re-election in Roscommon North in the 1895 election.He was then returned unopposed to the same seat in successive elections (1900, 1906, 1910) until his death in 1916.He represented the "Irish Independent" newspaper in the British House of Commons in London.