John Stephen Dwyer
John Stephen Dwyer, Esq. (died 1878) was a 19th-century Justice of the Peace from an aristocratic County Tipperary family.[1] Educated at Trinity College, Dublin,[2] he is described in his obituary from the 27 May 1878 Nenagh Guardian:
One of our best known local gentry has just paid the debt of nature at the age of 72 years. John Stephen Dwyer, Esq., J.P. Castleconnell, possessed a rare combination of social and excellent qualities. He was son of John Dwyer, esq., famous as Lord Chancellor Clare's Secretary. In his younger days he had a profusion of jet black hair, which gave him the nickname of "Black Jack". Mr Dwyer was in Nenagh in 1858 during the North Tipperary Militia Mutiny, and was hit in the ankle by a stray bullet. He was descended from a brother of O'Dwyer, the last chief of Kilnamanagh, whose praises are sung in "Sean O'Duibhir a Gleanna". He was nephew of General Dwyer of Ballyquirke Castle near Borrisokane. He was a brother of Rev. P. Dwyer, Rector of Drumcliffe, Ennis, who is writing a history of the Diocese of Killaloe.[3]
This branch of the family is mentioned by Sir Michael O'Dwyer, in The O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh, "Chapter XIX - The O'Dwyers in Ireland, 1691-1803", but he says the O'Dwyer genealogies are lost and specific lines of descent from the chiefs are speculative.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ thePeerage.com: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
- ↑ [1]The Landowners of Ireland: An Alphabetical List of the Owners of Estates of 500 Acres Or £500 Valuation and Upwards in Ireland, with the Acreage and Valuation in Each County
- ↑ [2] Nenagh Guardian 27 May 1878 as retrieved from RootsWeb 16 January 2010.
- ↑ The O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh: The history of an Irish sept by Sir Michael O'Dwyer,Published in 1933, J. Murray (London).
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