Rickard Donovan, Attorney, Previously Crown Prosector for Cork west Riding, Clerk of the Crown for Cork, Salary £462 per annum, since 1838, First Cousin of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus.

His father was a doctor in Clonakilty he being born at the family estate in Durrus.

Rickard Donovan is quoted for a paper he gave on the genealogies of the O’Driscolls by Dr. John O’Donovan:
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T105009.html

His duties, salary and background are set out on the enclosed.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=LFQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Rickard+Donovan+Esq.+Clerk+of+the+Crown+for+the+County+of+Cork&source=bl&ots=Ib4Sf4KBDt&sig=P4IaphF615zUMLUsse2WRkiyGzs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwA2oVChMIs8Oalqn3xgIVkwfbCh1OOQyB#v=onepage&q=Rickard%20Donovan%20Esq.%20Clerk%20of%20the%20Crown%20for%20the%20County%20of%20Cork&f=false