Patrick Croghey (1774-1831) was an Anglo-Irish soldier who served as a major in the British Army's 89th Regiment of Foot during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Born in County Carlow, Ireland, the son of the gentleman farmer Edward Croghey, he was expected to pursue a legal career like his father and inherit the family farm, only for the Irish Rebellion of 1798 to cause Edward's loyalties to be questioned by British authorities. Hoping to prove his family's loyalty to the crown, Croghey joined the British Army, an unusual act for a well-to-do firstborn son. Croghey served in the Egyptian Campaign in 1800-1801, in Argentina in 1807 and in the Dutch East Indies in 1810-1815. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Croghey resigned his commission to take over the family farm, which had been run by his sister Florence in his absence. Croghey married at the age of 43 and had two children, including Arthur Croghey, and he was elected MP for Ballymurphy in 1818, serving til 1830 and he died next year.