Alexander Donovan, Clonakilty, 1822 Admission Gray’s Inns, 1836 Reporter Court of Common Pleas, London, Judge Dominica, his brother Rickard Donovan, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Cork from 1838 (Equivalent to State Solicitor), Extended family Network by Marriage including Daniel O’Connell and the Puxley Mining Family of Beara.

The O’Connell/Puxley connection is through their uncle Timothy O’Donovan of Durrus. His wife’s mother was Lavellin (an Old Cork family some of whom conformed to the Church of Ireland) one of whom married a Puxley and in 1840 was the grandmother of the then mining magnate.

Gray’s Inns, son James a Doctor late Clonakilty he was probably born O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus, brother of Timothy O’Donovan, JP and also a JP.

The O’Donovans along with other old Catholic Gentry in West Cork in the early and mid 19th century were associated with Daniel o’Connell, Anti Tithe activity and Repeal.

They were connected politically with Rickard Deasy who was elected and MP in the 1840s late to be Solicitor General and Attorney General for Ireland and A judge. He was of the Clonakilty brewing family connected by marriage to the Protestant Clerke family of Skibbereen tow of the daughter s family as writers and astronomists.

In correspondence between Dr. John O’Donovan and members of the West Cork O’Donovans there is reference to Alexander achieving judicial office in Dominica and dying young.

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