Life
1839-[?]; b. Meigh, Co. Armagh; ed. Newry Model School; apprentice draper;
joined Metropolitan Police, 1858; director of G Division (detectives);
investigated Fenian and IRB; active against Land League; arrested Parnell
at Morrison’s Hotel, 12 Oct. 1881; investigated Phoenix Park Murders;
Exchange Court Clerk, Dublin Castle, 1892-94; Asst. Commissioner on retirement
in 1901. DIH
Works
F. M. Bussy, ed., Irish Conspiracies: Recollections of John Mallon
(1910).
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)