Life
1703- ; one of the Commissioners of Wide Streets in 1767; issued The
Achievements of a Pickle-herring, or the Life and Adventures of Buttermilk
Jack [1760].
Works
A Supplement to the Memoirs of Mrs. Woffington, Being the Achievements
of a Pickle-herring, or the Life and Adventures of Buttermilk Jack
[3rd edn.] (Dublin 1760).
Notes
Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860: A Social and Architectural
History (London: Cresset Press 1952; Allen Figgis 1969, 1980; Penguin
1992), remarks that he began at Madame Violante’s as a pickle-herring,
and became by turns journeyman carpenter and overseer, finally MP; he
was sexually delinquent and ran naked round St. Stephen’s Green for
a wager.(q.p.)
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