Edmund Thomas Bewley
Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley | |
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Born | 1837 |
Died | 1908 |
Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley (1837–1908), Irish lawyer and genealogist, born in Dublin on 11 January 1837, was son of Edward Bewley (1806–1876), licentiate of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, Ireland, by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Mulock of Kilnagarna, King's County (1791–1857).
Life
Entering
Bewley married in 1866 Anna Sophie Stewart Colles, daughter of Henry Colles, a member of the Irish bar, and his wife Elizabeth Mayne, and granddaughter of the eminent surgeon Abraham Colles, and by her had two sons and one daughter. Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was his brother-in-law.
Genealogical work
Bewley spent his leisure in genealogical pursuits. He was a frequent contributor to the Genealogist, Ancestor, and other genealogical periodicals. His most important researches were privately printed. His three books, The Bewleys of Cumberland (1902), The Family of Mulock (1905), and The Family of Poe (1906) are investigations into family history; in the monograph on the Poe family, he proved that Edgar Allan Poe was descended from a family of Powell, for generations tenant-farmers in County Cavan.
Other works
Bewley was also the author of:
- The Law and Practice of Taxation of Costs (1867)
- A Treatise on the Common Law Procedure Acts (1871)
and joint-author of A Treatise on the Chancery (Ireland) Act, 1867 (1868). [DNB 1][2]
Arms
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References
- ISBN 978-0-8063-0443-4.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: David James O'Donoghue (1912). "Bewley, Edmund Thomas (DNB12)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 157–8.
- ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. J". National Library of Ireland. 1898. p. 221. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
DNB references
These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.
- ^ The Bewleys of Cumberland, 1902; The Times, 29 June 1908; Dublin Nat, Libr. Catalogue; Irish Times, 28 June 1908.]