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 82 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Hugh O'Haleoeax, of Clanfergeal, Tvliose son, Hugh O'Halioeah-, of Slianagolden, oo. Limerick, b. 1650, m. Johanna O'Donoglioe, and had a son, Michael O'Halloran, of Limerick, wlio ■was b. 1682, in. Mary McDonnell, and d. 6th Api'il, 1759, leaving a son, Sylvester O'Halloean, M.E.I.A., of Limerick, surgeon, historian, and antiquarian, who was b. in Limerick, 31st December, 1728. He studied medicine and surgery at the uni- versities of London, Paris, and Leyden. While on the continent he paid particular attention to diseases of the eye, and at Paris wrote a treatise on that organ, which was pviblished at Limerick in 1750. Various other publications followed, and his Proposals for the Advanceineut of Surgery in Ireland, with a retrospective view of the ancient state of Phi/sic amongst us, appears to have actuated the founders of the Royal College of Sui'geons in Ireland, of which he was elected an honor- ary member, 7th August, 1786, two years after the date of the charter. Among other achievements. Dr. O'Halloran was tlie virtual founder, in 1760, of the County Limerick Infirmary. He devoted much time to literarv and antiquarian researches, and was one of the few modern historians who possessed the power of reading ancieint Irish manuscripts. In this department he wrote several works, and, in 1774, published his General History of Ireland from the ISarliest Accounts to the Close of the th Century. He was the author of other works, the whole of which are enumerated in the memoir by Sir William Wilde, which was published in the Dublin Quarterlii Joiurnal of Science for August, 1848. He m. in 1752, Mary O'Casey, and d. llth August, 1807, in his 80th year, having had three sons and one daughter. His youngest son, Major-general Sir Joseph O'Hallohan, Gr.C.B., in the E.I. Co. 's service, colonel of the 30th Regiment, Bengal army, was b. in Limerick, 13th August, 1763 ; appointed mid- shipman on board the "Swallow" sloop-of- war, in the E.I.Co.'s sei-vice, 22nd Febrviary, 1781 ; obtained an East Indian cadetship in July of that year, and was gazetted an ensign in I he Bengal army, 9th May, 1782, attaining the rank of lieutenant, 6th January, 1785 ; promoted to the rank of captain, 7th Jauuarv, 1796, to that of major, 25th April, 1808, lieu- tenant-colonel, 4th June, 1814, and colonel, 4th June, 1829, having been raised to the rank of brigadier-general, December, 1828, which ceased on the expiration of his term on the divisional staff, 23rd December, 1833. This closed also his active military career, after an unbroken, uninterrupted service of over fifty-three years. He landed in England, 13th May, 1834, and on 15th February of the following year received the honour of knight- hood, having had conferred on him some years previously the Companionship of the Order of the Bath, and was invested with the Grand Cross of that Order, 12th February, 1841 ; promoted to the rank of major-general. 10th January, 1837 ; elected a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, November, 1836, and of the Royal Irish Academy, llth November, 1838, and on 25th June of the same year, the mayor and corporation of Limerick presented him with the freedom of that city. He in., 1st December, 1790, Frances, daughter of Nicholas Bayly, of Redhill, co. Surrey, colonel of the West Middlesex Militia, and M.P. for Angle- sea, formerly of the Grenadier Guards, second son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, third bart. of Plas-Newyd, Anglesea (descended from the ancient earls of Lamington, in Scotland), and Caroline, his wife (only daughter and heiress of Thomas Paset, brigadier-general in the army), whose eldest son, Henry Bayly, in- herited, in right of his mother, as ninth Baron Paget, and thereupon assumed the surname and arms of Paget alone, and was created Earl of Uxbridge, 19th May, 1784 (see Marquess of Anglesey, in Burke's Peerage). Major-General Sir Joseph O'Hal- loran d. 3rd November, 1843, in his 81st year, from the effects of an accident, having had by Frances, his wife (who was b. 16th November, 1773, and d. at Calcutta, 22nd January, 1835), I. Charles Sylvester, lieutenant H.M. 17th Regiment, b. 1st September, 1791, d. at Mauritius, 1812. II. Thomas Shuldham (major), of Lizard Lodge, O'Halloran Hill, South Aus- tralia, b. at Berhampore, East Indies, 25th October, 1797 ; was a cadet at the Royal Military College at Marlow (which was removed to Sandhurst in 1812) in 1808 ; appointed ensign in the Royal West Middlesex Militia in 1809, gazetted an ensign in the 17th Foot, 1813, and joined his regiment the following year ; appointed lieutenant, 28th June, 1817, purchased his com- pany in the 97th Regiment, 27th April, 1827, placed on half-pay in 1837, and the following year retired from the army, after having seen much sei'vice, principally in India, and served during the whole of the Nepaul war, 1814 — 16, and during the Deccan war, 1817 — 18. In 1838, Major O'Halloran sailed for South Australia, landed at Glenelg, 21st November of that year, and settled with his family at O'Halloran HUl ; on 2nd February, 1839, was nominated a justice of the peace for South Aus- tralia, gazetted major-commandant of the South Australian Militia, 26th February, 1840, and on 8th June, 1840, commissioner of police, which post he resigned, 12th April, 1843 ; nominated senior non-official member of the old nominee Council, 15th June, 1843, and continued in that position for eight years ; gazetted lieutenant-colonel of tlie volunteer military force, 1854, re- turned to the Legislative Council at the first election, March, 1857, and resigned his seat in 1863. On several occasions he commanded expeditions against the blacks. He was the prin- cipal fovmder and svipporter of Christ