Life
1739-1821; song of Daniel Cornelis de Beaufort (1700-1788), provost-archdeacon
of Tuam, and a French refugee; ed. TCD, MA, 1764; hon. LLD 1789; vicar
of Navan, Co. Louth, 1764; rector of Collon, 1790; built or refurbished
seventeen houses and churches in Ireland including one in his own parish
at Collon; issued his famous map, Memoir of a map of Ireland ...
with a complete index to the map (1792), marking all the Protestant
and none of the Catholic churches; strongly promoted by the viceroy
Marquess of Buckingham, it sold 2,000 copies in eighteen months; joint-fndr.
of RIA; concerned in Sunday School movement; his dg. Fanny became fourth
wife of Richard Lovell Edgeworth; father of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort,
the navy hydrographer; he became father-in-law to Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
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Criticism
C. C. Ellison, The Hopeful Traveller: The Life and Times of Daniel
Beaufort LL.D (Kilkenny: Boethius Press, 1987) [see Irish Review
Autumn 1988].
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Notes
Ulster libraries: University of Ulster Library (Morris Collecton)
holds Memoir of a Map of Ireland (London 1792). Library of Herbert Bell
(Belfast) holds Daniel Augustus Beaufort, Memoir of [a] Map of Ireland
(Dublin 1792).
Cathach Books (1996-97) lists Memoir of a Map of Ireland: illustrating the Topography of that Kingdom, and containing a short Account of its Present State, Civil and Ecclesiastical; with a Complete Index to the Map, with orig. folding map on linen (Dublin: Allen 1792) [£975]; Beaufort’s Ireland [3rd ed.] (Dublin 1813), and Memoir of A Map of Ireland: The Topography of that Kingdom [1st ed.] (Dublin 1792).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)