A Compendium of Irish Biography - Alfred Webb

Preface

COMPRISING SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED IRISHMEN, EMINENT PERSONS CONNECTED WITH IRELAND BY OFFICE OR BY THEIR WRITINGS.

ALFRED WEBB.

"And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto."-II. MAC. xv. 38.

DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON, SACKVILLE-STREET.

MDCCCLXXVIII

I dedicate this Book to the Memory of my Father

RICHARD DAVIS WEBB

WHO DEEPLY INTERESTED IN ITS PLAN AND INCEPTION HAS NOT LIVED TO SEE ITS COMPLETION