Identity Statement
Reference Code:
IE CCCA/SM/775
Title:
Thomas Lyons Incoming Correspondence
Dates:
7 March 1832 - 27 Apr 1850
Level of description:
Series
Extent:
14 items
Context
Creator(s): Thomas Lyons (b1782 – d1850) Mayor of Cork in 1841 - 1842 Daniel O’Connell MP John Murphy, Bishop of Cork
Thomas Francis Meagher Patrick Vincent Fitzpatrick Lord John Russell
Archival History Originally donated in 1969 to Cork Historical and Archaeological Society by William Stanley Harrington, Rushbrook, great grand nephew of Thomas Lyons. Formerly held at Cork City Library. Deposited in Archives in 2011. Administrative / Biographical History Thomas Lyons (b1782 – d1850), wholesale woolen and linen merchant. Lived at 22 Wellington Road, Cork. Business, T.Lyons and Co. was based at 21 South Main Street, Cork. In the first elections to the reformed Cork Corporation following the Municipal Reform (Ireland) Act 1840, Lyons was elected an Alderman of the Exchange Ward, in October 1841. In November 1841 he was elected as the first Roman Catholic Mayor of Cork City since the late 17 th century. Belonged to the Liberal Party / Irish Repeal Party. Close s upporter and friend of Daniel O’Connell MP.
Daniel O’Connell, MP (b1775 - d1847), ‘The Liberator’, campaigned for Catholic emancipation and repeal of the Act of Union.
John Murphy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork (b1772 – d1847). Suppor ter of Daniel O’Connell.
Thomas Meagher (b c1795 – d.1874). Bo rn in St John’s, Newfoundland to an Irish merchant family. He moved to Waterford in 1819 and became a prominent businessman and political figure in the city. Shipowner, specialising in Newfoundland trade. In 1822 he married Alicia Quan (1798 – 1827), the second eldest daughter of Thomas Quan and Alicia Forristall of Waterford. A strong supporter of Daniel O’Connell, he was unanimously elected Mayor of Waterford in October 1842, the city’s first C atholic Mayor since 1690, and served as Mayor for 2 years. He was also O’Connellite MP for Waterford City from August 1847 to March 1857. Thomas is best known as the father of Young Irelander Thomas Francis Meagher (b1823- d1867)“Meagher of the Sword”. Thomas senior died in 1874 and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin.
Patrick Vincent Fitzpatrick (b1792 – d1866), political and financ ial manager to Daniel O’Connell.
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