Henrique O'Neill, 1st Viscount of Santa Mónica
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Henrique O'Neill, 1st Viscount of Santa Mónica (Lisbon, 3 August 1823 – Lisbon, 6 November 1889) was a Portuguese writer, jurist and politician.
Background
Henrique O'Neill was a son of José Maria O'Neill, the titular head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century, and wife Ludovina de Jesus Alves Solano. He descended from a most noble Irish family that had fled to France in the 17th century due to religious persecution and which then passed to Portugal.
Career
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Other works
He was a very distinguished and literate person, who socialized with Alexandre Herculano, António Feliciano de Castilho and other worthies of the time, reached a position of a certain relief in Letters since he was a student, when he published poems in the Trovador, to which group he belonged. He translated and adapted the Fables of Lessing and published Fabulário, In Memoriam, Feira da Ladra, and the Turra de Dois Caturras, all in out of the market editions.
Title, honours and decorations
He was a member of His Most Faithful Majesty's
Personal life
He died unmarried and without issue.[1] The representation of his title went to his older surviving brother Jorge Torlades O'Neill I.
See also
- Irish kings
- Irish nobility
- Irish royal families
- O'Neill of Clannaboy
- Ó Neill Dynasty Today
- O'Neill (surname)
- Uí Néill, the Irish Dynasty
References
- ^ Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal, III, 2006, Tomo III, pg. 1.399
Sources
- Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil, Volume Terceiro, pg. 299
External links
- Henrique O'Neill, 1st Viscount of Santa Mónica's Genealogy in a Portuguese Genealogical site
- O'Neill Genealogy at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 October 2009)
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