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Rh principal of the Roman Catholic chapel in Soho-square, where he was highly esteemed by people of his religion. In his private character he was always cheerful, gay, sparkling with wit, and full of anecdote. He died at an advanced age in January 1802, and was interred in St. Pancras church-yard.

A collection of his miscellaneous tracts has been published in one vol. 8vo.; and Dr. Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne, to whom one of them was written, acknowledges him to write with both strength and eloquence. Mr. Wesley also styles him an “arch and lively writer.”

and poet, was born towards the close of the sixteenth century, at Ormond, in the county of Tipperary, and educated at Oxford, where he took his medical degrees, and retired to his native country, where he speedily attained the highest eminence in his profession. He was living in 1620, but the time of his decease is not specified in our authorities. He wrote an heroic poem in Latin, on the Earl of Ormond and Ossory, and also some medical treatises.

celebrated bard was, like Carolan, blind. His performance on the harp was unrivalled; and we are credibly assured, that many of the Irish national airs would have been lost, but for his retentive memory and pure taste. In Irish genealogy, in heraldry, and bardic lore, O'Neill was pre-eminent. He died at Maydown, in Armagh, towards the close of October 1816, aged ninety.

extraordinary instance of longevity. He was born in the reign of King William, in 1696; and retained his