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An Irish barrister and author; born at Aughrim, County Galway, 1810; lost in the burning of the steamer Amazon, off Land's End, Jan. 4, 1852. His works are: "The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Reality of Eastern Travel" (2 vols., 1844); "Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers" (3 vols., 1849); "Reginald Hastings" (3 vols., 1850), a novel of the great rebellion; "Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries" (2 vols., 1851); "Darien; or, The Merchant Prince: An Historical Romance" (3 vols., 1851); and "A Memoir of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough" (3 vols., 1853).