As Magistrate:

Sir Richard Cox, 1757, Dunmanway. Subscriber James Simon Irish Coinage 1749.   On 1741, famine, 500 dead in his parish, ‘burying the dead used to be one of the most religious acts among the Irish is now a burden’.  The Papists thought they are bad members of this society are yet better than  none.  Cox, Richard, Sir., Dunmanway, succeeded by his son, Rev. Sir Michael – (CC 30/1/1766)

Francis McNamee had a piece in ancestry.com in 2010 taken from Gentleman’s Magazine Vol 19 October 1749 page 463 in relation to Sir Richard Cox and Dunmanway:

Submission from the Remberances, October 14th:

This writer quotes a faying of Themistocles the Athenian, Put but a poor and languid city under my care, and I will render it rich and flourishing; Which kind of ability; is what alone. he says, constitutes a great and able politician. Sir Richard Cox of Ireland in the year of 1733, came to the possession of a large, fruitful but uncultivated tract of land, inhabited by a race of beggars, grown by habitual wretchedness so hardened that tho’, no sensible of the smart, they were not ashamed to prefer hunger and idleness to labour and competency. He therefore, directed his thoughts to remedy this evil; and wisely concluded that nothing but the establishment of a staple manufacture on the premises would answer the purpose.

For very sufficient reasons he chose the linen; and having procured a quantity of flax seed in 1735, prevailed with them to sow it and by dint of perseverance, and a series of admirable expedients to rectify his own mistakes, to render sloth infamous, to excite emulation, to increase his colony, if it may be so called, and to interest all the passions of those concerned in its success, he at last fixed it on such an establishment, as, if the same laws are observed, bids fair to to perpetual.

Already the little town has undergone a wonderful change; for whereas, in 1735, it contained ay most but 50 houses, many of them only fit for beggars, it now contains 117 houses, whose inhabitants are fully employed and take pleasure in being so.

This is true patriotism and policy united; a sphere of ambition, that every gentleman may follow innocently; laudably, and profitably.

Sir Richard Cox introduced families from the North of Ireland to assist names such as McGivern (McGovern from Leitrim/Fermanagh), Maguire, Pattison and McMullan among others

Thomas Hovenden

Birth: Dec. 28, 1840
County Cork, Ireland
Death: Aug. 14, 1895
Plymouth Meeting
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania, USA

Thomas was an artist whose paintings won him world-wide fame. He was born in Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. At the time of the potato famine he was six years old and placed in an orphanage as his parents had died. He studied at the Cork School of Design as he was apprenticed to a carver and gilder.
He immigrated to the United States in 1863 and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City. In 1868 he moved to Baltimore, Maryland and in 1874 went to Paris. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Cabanel. However most of his time was spent with the American Colony at Pont-Aven in Brittany led by Robert Wylie. Here he painted many pictures of the peasantry.
In 1880 he retruned to America and became a member of the Society of American Artists and an Associate member of the National Academy of Design. He was elected Academician in 1882.
Thomas married, on June 9, 1881, Helen Corson the eldest daughter of George and Martha (Maulsby) Corson and settled on Helen’s father’s homestead in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, PA. He made his studio in their barn, known as Abolitionist Hall due to its use for anti-slavery meetings.
He was appointed Professor of Painting and Drawing at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1886. The sculpter Alexander Stirling Calder and the leader of the Ashcan School, Robert Henri were two of his students.
Thomas was killed at the age of 54 by a railroad locomotive at a grade crossing where the Trenton Cut-Off Railroad intersected the Germantown Pike, about a half mile from his home. Some newspaper reported his death was the result of a heroic effort to save a ten year old girl who was crossing the tracks. They got off the trolly and were struck by a train which had not been seen as it approached and killed instantly
Among his well known paintings were: “John Brown Being Led to Execution”, “In the Hands of the Enemy”, and “Breaking of Home Ties” which were all on exhibition at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893. Another was “The Home Coming”.
Thomas and Helen had two children: Thomas Hovenden, Jr., born March 11, 1882 and Martha Maulsby Hovenden, born May 8, 1884.

Burial:
Plymouth Meeting Friends Cemetery
Plymouth Meeting
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: John Davies
Record added: Jan 20, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 24075883
Thomas Hovenden
Added by: Thomas Fisher

Thomas Hovenden
Added by: Thomas Fisher

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From Nick Reddan Newspaper extracts:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/newspaper/np_abst05.htm

Limerick Evening Post and Clare Sentinel 1829 11 13 NPM BOLIVAR Simon President A Bogata, South America, General O’LEARY, son of Jeremiah O’LEARY, Esq. of Cork, to Solita SOUBLETTE, sister to General SOUBLETTE, and niece to the President BOLIVAR

LC 1821 9 22 NPD CONNELL John Shadwell Field-Mar At Rio de Janero, aged 77, Field Marshal John Shadwell CONNOR, Counsellor of War,. He entered the Portugese service as Captain, in 1763, with leave, being then a Lieut, in the British Army.

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Probably written by John Windle later associated with Queens College, Cork now UCC. Father John referred to is Father John Parish Priest of Drimoleague.

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The Concordat was a discretionary endowment to be given out by the Lord Lieutenant. Government also had at its disposal the equivalent of a petty cash fund known as concordatum money, but this had to be accounted for and was frequently overspent in the innumerable legitimate sundry expenses in running a large establishment. Many of the applicants for relief were women often widowed. The were the wives of Military personnel or clergymen, Government Officials who had in the absence of pensions fallen on hard times. Some of the amount awarded came to £10. To put this in perspective, a cadet to the RIC in the officer class had a starting salary of £100 per annum. from the 1830s.

The observations are made by senior clergy judicial persons and members of the Gentry and MPs. Nor althoether unlike the representations of present day TDs.

Lor Talbot served in Ireland from 1817 to 1821
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chetwynd-Talbot,_2nd_Earl_Talbot