Life
1872-1948; son of Very Rev. Henry Jellett, Dean of St. Patrick’s;
ed. TCD; extern examiner and Professor of Midwifery, 1909-11; master of
the Rotunda, 1910-19; gynaecological consultant to several Dublin hospitals;
consultant obstetrician to New Zealand Dept. of Health, 1920s; medical
works; co-authored with Ngaio Marsh, Death follows a Surgeon (1935);
Much To-Do (London:Sampson Low 1946), set in the west of Ireland island
of ‘Darraghmore’, and involving a priest who allows himself
to ‘go to seed and forgets his humility’ (Stephen Brown, Ireland
in Fiction, 1919); Biddy, a neice of the priest, commits suicide and
Fr. Flanagan is ‘saved from himself’ Dr. Rourke, an outspoken
Protestant neighbour; some bawdiness. IF
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)