Life
1778-1858; br. of William Monck; gold medallist, TCD; BA 1798; Irish bar, 1800; examiner of prerogative court, librarian King’s Inns, 1815; exchanged letters with Southey; organised religious instruction in Irish-speaking population; worked for improvement of prisons; instrumental in fnd. Irish professorship at TCD; LLD, 1817; Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parliaments in Ireland (1820); also issued Testimony of St. Patrick against the False Pretensions of Rome (1846). ODNB
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Notes
His Testimony of St. Patrick against the false pretensions of Rome (1846) was criticised by Matthew Kelly in the Dublin Review. (See RIA Dict. of Irish Biog., 2004, under Kelly [by C. J. Woods, Vol. 5, p.87.)
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