A
familiar postcard came up on the-salesroom auction site a short while ago
titled:
‘AUSTRALIANS
V DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ELEVEN (PAST AND PRESENT), JUNE 1905’. MONO POSTALLY UNUSED’
I thought my
bid of £20 was way too much. Hard to believe that the winning bid was £80 for a
postcard.
The character
I recognised immediately by sight was F H Browning (President of the Irish
Rugby Football Union and commander of the IRFU Volunteer Training Corps when shot
on the first day of the Easter Rising).
The second
character recognised by initial/surname was R M Gwynn who I had researched a
good few years ago re his role in helping set up the Irish Citizen Army
following the Lockout of 1913.
The offices of
the photographer and the printer both suffered damage during the Easter Rising.
The other
names were not familiar so a bit of cursory research was warranted to see who the above
two were mixing with.
P A
Meldon
Philip Albert
Meldon
Born 18th
December 1874, Dublin
Died 8th
April 1942, London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meldon
Meldon appears
to have been in the British Army at the time of the photo, having served during
the 2nd Anglo Boer War.
In the 1911
census, he is recorded as a visitor to Colonel Duncan Carter, Royal Artillery,
in Sunningdale, Berkshire.
Landed in France in November 1914 with the Royal Field Artillery. Served through WW1 and awarded a DSO.
H H
Corley
Henry
Hagarty Corley
Born 20th
November 1878 at 30 Lower Baggot street, Dublin.
Died 30th January 1936 in London, England
His father,
Anthony Hagarty Corley, appears to have been a surgeon. His mother was Eleanor
nee Purdon
Corley’s brother
Anthony was killed in Gallipoli serving with the Australian forces on the 17th
September 1915.
https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/zc77ss20m
E Ensor
Ernest Ensor
Born 17th
December 1870 in Cheltenham, England.
Died 13th
August 1929 in Cork, Ireland
Listed in
Tipperary as a Professor in the 1901 census for Ireland
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Tipperary_Town/Collegeland/1719898/
Listed as
Erson in the 1911 census in Cork in the 1911 census of Ireland, a School
Inspector
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__6_Urban/Morrisons_Quay/394190/
A L Leeper
Arthur
Lindsay Leeper
Born 19th
May 1883, Dublin.
Died 16th
February 1942, Huddersfield, England
Served with
the YMCA during WW1 initially and then as a Chaplain in the British Army.
Settled in
Huddersfield and wrote “A History of Huddersfield Parish Church”
J T Gwynn
John Tudor
Gwynn
Born 13th
November 1881 in Ramelton, Co Donegal, Ireland
Died 17th
May 1956 in Bangor, Co Down, Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tudor_Gwynn
Worked in
the Indian Civil Service, as a journalist and then as the headmaster of a
school in Dublin.
S D Lambert
Septimus
Drummond Lambert
Born 3rd
August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland
Died 21st
April 1959 in Dublin, Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sep_Lambert
He is listed
in the 1901 census of Ireland as a Law Student and living with his parents etc
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rathmines/Rathmines_Road/1297507/
In the 1911
census he is in Rathmines with his wife and family and listed as a solicitor
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_West/Rathgar_Road/54483/
During King
Edward VII’s visit to Dublin in 1903, Lambert’s father was called upon to do a
post mortem on the King’s dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond_Lambert
C R Faussett
Charles Reginald Fausset
Born 6th
January 1880 in Waterford, Ireland
Died 3rd
May 1915 in Belgium
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fausset-71
listed as
Reginald in the 1901 census of Ireland, living in Dublin with the family
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/1284391/
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1612076/charles-reginald-fausset/
Rev T A Harvey
Thomas
Arnold Harvey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Harvey
Born 17th
April 1878, Dublin
Died 25th
December 1966, Dublin. Buried in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
Reputed to
have caught and bowled W G Grace for a duck.
He is listed
as a student in Trinity College, Dublin in the 1901 census (R M Gwynn also
listed)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Trinity/Trinity_College/1312073/
He was still
in Dublin in 1906 as the Captain of the 10th Company of the Boy’s Brigade,
while curate at St Stephen’s in Mount Street, Dublin (aka The Pepper Canister)
He appears
to have been in Sligo in 1908 based on a letter from Jack Butler Yeats
He is in
Sligo for the 1911 census of Ireland
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Lissadill_East/Ballinfull/753518/
A photograph of him in his role as Anglican Bishop of Cashel and Waterford is in the National Portrait Gallery collection
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw220473/Thomas-Arnold-Harvey
Harvey’s
brother Frederick appears to have been a sportsman and won a Victoria Cross
while serving with the Canadians in WW1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Maurice_Watson_Harvey
By
coincidence, I was at a showing of Ashley Morrison's documentary "Mark Our Place" re the 3 Rugby VCs at Wootton
Bassett Rugby Club earlier this year and did not make the connection until
reviewing the Wikipedia page.
J E Lynch
Joseph
Edward Lynch
Born 26th
April 1880 in Monkstown
Died 25th
September 1915 in France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lynch_(cricketer)
http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/conor2.htm
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/734560/joseph-edward-lynch/
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