Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

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B609/9/G/3 Diary of Edward Hallaran Bennett, MD, 1864-73. EH Bennett was an uncle of John H Bennett, and was Professor of Surgery at Trinity College, Dublin. The diary is in abstract form, with entries for certain days only, often summarising events over a period, and not kept contemporaneously with those events. The entries are not all in date order. A few newscuttings have been pasted in, including two dated 12 October 1871 and 26 February 1873 recording the births of his daughters Georgina and Norah respectively. A note inside the cover states ‘This is mostly material from the estate of Norah daughter of EH Bennett MD (Prof of Surgery TCD)’. With it is a news report on the funeral of the late Professor Bennett, dated 24 June 1907.

B609/9/G/4 Mounted photograph of Edward Hallaran Bennett, Professor of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, and uncle of John H Bennett.

B609/9/G/5 Photographs, Ballinacurra, c1858, 1880. Includes picture of quay and malt house with figure in boat in foreground, said to be William Hallaran Bennett. There are also two other pictures of the quay and Ballinacurra malt house, one with ship at anchor, and a picture of Charleston malt house. Also present are a picture of a house, and two pictures showing farmland. There is also a feint picture of a building by the water’s edge (a note on reverse reads ‘Avoncore Mill, Midleton’). Most of the pictures are rather feint. 8 items [See also B609/8/A above] B609/9/G/6 Copy of ‘The Iliad of Homer’, Vol IV [Books 19 to 24], translated by Pope, Dublin, 1791. A note inside the cover states that the book was given as a literature prize in Latin to Jacobo Bennett (James Bennett), on 14 July 1811, by William Adair, Headmaster. A much later accompanying note explains Adair was master of a school in Fermoy started by John Anderson. This James Bennett is probably the great-grandfather of John H Bennett.

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