MAGUIRE, Thomas (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). b. Dublin 24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11 June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. d. Eaton place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. bur. Dean’s Grange cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. The Times 27 Feb. 1889 p. 5, 4 March p. 6.
MAHAFFY, Edward. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow 1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov. 1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct. 1881.
MAHER, James. b. Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822; parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare 1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. d. Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath. 200 priests were present. bur. Carlow Graigue. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare (1883) 177–8; Letters of Father Maher (1877).
MAHER, John. b. 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41; sheriff of Wexford 1853. d. 28 May 1860.
MAHER, Nicholas Valentine (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) b. Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. d. Turtulla near Thurles 18 Oct. 1871. I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p. 411.
MAHOMED, Frederick Henry Horatio Akbar (grandson of succeeding). b. Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869; M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872; resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873; medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875; medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881; M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. d. of enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. Medical times and gazette, ii 745, 763 (1884); Guy’s Hospital Reports (1886) 1–10.
MAHOMED, Sake Deen. b. Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784; learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at Cork with an Irish girl, she d. about Dec. 1850; carried on a vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death; author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2 ed. 1826, portrait. d. 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851. Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed kept a fencing academy. The travels of Deen Mahomed 2 vols. Cork (1794); Willis’s Current notes (1852) 23; G.M. xxxv 444 (1851).
MAHON, Charles James Patrick, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son of Patrick Mahon d. 1821). b. Ennis, co. Clare 17 March 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war; colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P. Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with Smith O’Brien in 1829. d. Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. I.L.N. 27 June 1891 p. 854, portrait; Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p. 832, portrait.
MAHON, Matthew. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805; major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. d. Brighton 18 March 1851.
MAHONY, Francis Sylvester (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney, woollen manufacturer). b. Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome; prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood, co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830; ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3; contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6, many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor 1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe 1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881), memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. d. at his hotel in the Rue des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. bur. in vaults of Shandon church, Cork. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 463–88, portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers (1885) 91–4; S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed. (1877) 238; Dublin Univ. mag. xxx 442–52 (1847) signed Morgan Rattler; I.L.N. xlix 137 (1866), portrait.