Life
1819-1892; book collector, b. Clonsast, Co. Offaly, 26 May; ed. home and
TCD, aged 13, grad. 1837; bar; vicar-gen. of Tuam, abolished by Irish
Church Act, 1869, with annuity of £106; donated 23,000 printed vols. and
unbound papers to RDS, 1863, held in trust for National Library; incl. Napoleonic literature, Irish hist., topography, and
biography; d. Dublin, 25 Dec., bur. Clonbulloge, Offaly. DIB DIH
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)