Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

INTRODUCTION

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference:

PR70

Title:

Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Level of description:

fonds

Date:

1778 – 1940 (1973)

Extent:

13 boxes: 9 series, 15 sub-series, 1719 files/items

CONTEXT Creator Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) [b1807 – d1884]

Biographical/Administrative History Daniel MacCarthy was born in London, England on 28 June 1807. His mother, Mary Ann (née Ward), was also born in London in 1787, as was his father, also Daniel, in 1784. Daniel’s father died at the age of 23 in April 1807, not long before his son was born. It appears that Daniel was an only child and born into great wealth. His paternal grand-uncle, Denis MacCarthy, had been a prosperous shipowner and coal merchant whose heir was Daniel’s grandfather, also Daniel MacCarthy. This Daniel had emigrated from Dromdeegy near Dunmanway, County Cork to London in 1763. Daniel MacCarthy, the subject of this biography, was educated at St Edmund’s Old Hall [St Edmund’s College], near Ware, Hertfordshire, England. It seems that he did not have a profession and moved to Italy in his early twenties. There, he married Harriet Popham in Naples on 26 May 1832. Harriet’s parents were Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham and Catherine Moffat Prince. Admiral Popham served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and invented a code of signals adopted by the Royal Navy in 1803. Daniel and Harriet had three children, all born in Florence, Italy: Elizabeth Radcliffe White MacCarthy (known affectionately by Daniel as “Mimi”), born 21 June 1834; Henry Popham Tenison MacCarthy (“Rico”), born 19 May 1836; and Florence Strachan MacCarth y (“Floey”) , born 28 August 1838. By 1847, the MacCarthys were living in Devon, England – Harriet died there that summer. Further tragedy was soon to follow: their daughter Elizabeth died in the summer of 1849 aged 15, possibly from tuberculosis. Henry later died on 5 February 1865 in Madras [Chennai], India from liver disease. He was 28 years old.

Daniel MacCarthy published several novels, short stories, and historical works during his lifetime. He had several pieces of fiction published: his story 'Antonio the Student of Padua' was published in