Life
1745-1819 [var. Gifford]; b. Wexford; accredited with coining the
Irish political sense of the term ‘Ascendancy’ as signifying
the Anglo-Irish grandees and their Protestant clients; edited Dublin
Journal, the Govt. paper; he was the
‘dog in office’ castigated by The Press and named with
Captain Gifford in Armagh as ‘planners of the Orange system’
(23 Jan. 1798); author of Orange (1798), ‘a political rhapsody’;
looked at askance by Barrington and Fitzpatrick; ed. The Dublin Journal,
and High Sheriff of Dublin; granted Freedom of the Guild of Dublin Merchants,
1798, contemporaneously with Henry Grattan’s removal from same. [No
DNB entry.] PI FDA
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- Patrick Kennedy, Modern Irish Anecdotes (n.d.): 54-55.
- Kevin Whelan, ‘Origins of the Orange Order’, in Bullán: And Irish Studies Journal, 2 (Spring/Summer 1996): 21.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)