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father, who was a medical practitioner. When but twenty-one years of age he took his medical degree, practised for a short time in Clonmel and Cork, and in 1840 re- moved to Dublin, where he soon took a fore- most place in the profession, both as a teacher and practitioner. Dr. Neligan's great book. Medicines, their Uses and Modes of Administration, which has gone through many editions, and is still a standard work, was first published in 1843. I^ 1848 he edited a second edition of his friend Dr. Graves's Clinical Lectures. He edited the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science from 1849 to 1861, contri- buting to its pages numerous important papers. Dr. Neligan specially devoted himself to cutaneous diseases, and in 1852 published a work on Diseases of the Skin, which established him in the position he had been rapidly attaining as the leading consulting physician in Ireland on those affections. He was a member of the prin- cipal medical bodies in Dublin, and an honorary member of at least two on the Continent. Dr. Neligan died 24th July 1863, aged 48. "Of a commanding ap- pearance, highly favoured by nature in mind and person, his industry was untir- ing. ., In him society has lost a skilful physician — medicine, an able exponent — the profession, a dauntless upholder of its rights and dignity." "5('863)

Nesta, a beautiful Welsh princess, daughter of Ehys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales, was the ancestor of some of the leading Anglo-Norman invaders of Ireland, and consequently of several of the most important Irish families : she died in 1 136. The following list of her children and grandchildren may be found useful for reference. Great care has been taken in its compilation from diflFerent authorities, no two of which, however, agree as to the names of her descendants, or the order of their birth.

Nesta, by King Henry I. of England, had two sons — Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester, mar. Mabel, daughter and heiress of Sir Eobert FitiAymon, the conqueror of Glamorgan ; Henry FitzRoy (killed in an attack on Anglesea about 1156) left two sons — Miler FitzHenry, mar. niece of Hugh

de Lacy ; Eobert FitzHenry.

Nesta married (about 1095) Gerald Fitz- W ALTER (died about 1 135), Castellan of Windsor, and Constable of Pem- broke, and bv him had issue —

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William FiizQerald (died 1 1 74), ancestor of the FitzMaurices and Graces, was father of —

Eaymond FitzGerald (commonly styled Eaymond le Gros), mar. Basilia, sister of Strongbow ;

Griffith FitzGerald ;

A daughter. Maurice FitzGerald (died 11 76), mar. Alice, daughter of Amulph, a con- nexion of WiUiam the Conqueror, and was father of —

William FitzGerald, Baron of Naas ;

Gerald FitzGerald, Baron of Oflfaly, ancestor of the Earls of Kildare ;

Thomas FitzGerald (died 1213), an- cestor of the Desmond FitzGeralds, mar. Ellinor, sister of Hervey de Marisco ;

Alexander FitzGerald, of Compton in England ;

Nesta, mar. in 1 175, Hervey de Ma- risco. David FitzGerald, Bishop of St. David's, 1 147 to 1 176, had a son- Miles of St. David's. Angharat, mar. William de Barry, and had four sons —

Eobert de Barry ;

Philip de Barry ;

Walter de Barry ;

Gerald de Barry (Giraldus Cambrensis).

A daughter (? Gledewis),m3x. Cogan,

by whom she had —

Milo de Cogan, mar. a daughter of Eobert FitzStephen ;

Eichard de Cogan. Nesta lastly espoused Stephen, Constable

of Cardigan, and to him she bore Robert FitzStephen, the conqueror of Waterford, whose sons were —

Ealph FitzStephen (died 1 182), mar. daughter of Milo de Cogan ;

Meredith FitzStephen (died 1171). 52 54 147 148 148* 202 216 233

Newport, Sir John, Bart., a politi- cian, the son of a Waterford banker, was bom there 24th October 1756. He was created a baronet in 1789. In 1802 he en- tered Parliament as member for his native city, and acting in concert with the Whigs, continued to represent it, with short inter- missions, until 1 832. After the passage of the Eeform Bill he was appointed Comp- troller of the Exchequer; from which office he retired in 1 839 with a pension of £ i ,000. He died at Newpark, near Waterford, 9th February 1843, aged 87. He was thus spoken of in 1830 : " There never was an Irish question during the last twenty-eight years on which the member for Waterford did not distinguish himself by a fearless 359