Life
fl.1690; prob. the first proprietor of Castle Bellingham, Co. Louth; author of Diary of Thomas Bellingham: An Officer under William III.
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Works
Diary of Thomas Bellingham: An Officer under William III [rep. edn.] (Preston: G. Toulmin 1908), 161pp. front., plates, ports., facsim.
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Notes
Assassin?: D. J. O’Donoghue (The Poets of Ireland, 1912) , notes that a namesake and the only successful assassin of an English
premier was defended by a barrister called Peter Alley in 1821, and suggests that Alley may be the author of the poetry collection Public Spirit (Dublin 1793)
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