Life
1812-1880; b. Killough, Co. Down, 14 May; uncle of Rev. Matthew Russell and Lord Killowen; said to have moved John Henry Newman towards conversion; ed. Drogheda, and Maynooth; ord. 1835; Prof. Ecclesiastical History at Maynooth, 1854-57, and President, 1857; wrote a Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, and other works; collaborated with J P Prendergast on Report on the Carte Manuscripts (8 vols) and Calendar of State Papers of James I (4 vols.); learned articles in Edinburgh Review and Dublin Review; also contrib. to Edinburgh Rview, and Dickens’ Household Words; wrote on Irish matters for Chambers Encyclopaedia; issued Essays Chiefly Theological; translations of Canon Schmidt’s tales; pieces in Dublin Acrostics (1865, 1869); d. 14 Feb., after a fall from his horse. PI DIH DUB
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References
Barbara Hayley, ‘A Reading and Thinking Nation: Periodicals as the Voice of Nineteenth-century Ireland’, in Hayley & Enda McKay, ed., Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodical (Gigginstown, Mullingar: Assoc. of Irish Learned Journals 1987), pp.29-48, p.42, writes of the editor of The Irish Annual Miscellany, established in 1850 to combat danger of anti-Catholic periodicals [includes lengthy quotation].
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