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John D'Alton (historian)

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circuit, having married a lady of that province, Miss Phillips. He received many fees in the important Irish family causes of Malone v. O'Connor, Leamy v. Smith, Jago v. Hungerford, and others. With the exception of an appointment as commissioner of the
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and fortresses of the early colonists, especially of the Anglo-Normans, the castles of the Plantagenets, Elizabethan mansions, Cromwellian keeps, and the ruins of abbeys. Drawings were supplied by
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for an essay on the Irish people to the twelfth century; D'Alton obtained the top prize and medal, and his essay, which was read 24 November 1828, occupied the first part of vol. xvi. of the
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In his last years, D'Alton's health confined him to his house, but he received guests and worked on an autobiography. He died 20 January 1867.
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D'Alton mainly confined himself to chamber practice, and attended the
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D'Alton was born at his father's ancestral mansion, Bessville,
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Guide to the John D'Alton Collection ca. 17th-19th centuries
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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For illustrations of Irish topography contributed to the
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Irish lawyer, historian, biographer and genealogist
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County Westmeath
Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
Middle Temple
King's Inns
Irish Bar
Connaught
Loan Fund Board
civil list pension
Lord John Russell
Brian Boru
Royal Irish Academy
Cunningham gold medal
Henry II of England
Irish Penny Journal
raths
Samuel Lover
Dublin and Drogheda Railway
Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton






Stephen, Leslie
"D'Alton, John" 
Dictionary of National Biography

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