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Historic Doubts On The Birth-Place Of Celebrated Men;
the demise of the duke , a letter appeared in one of the Dublin journals , announcing the discovery , that the Honourable Arthur Wesley ( for so the duke ' s family name was originally written ) was born in the county of Meath , in the month of March , 1769 , and in proof thereof the writer says : —
"A petition was presented to the Irish House of Commons in the year 1790 , praying that the return of the Honourable Arthur Wesley for the borough of Trim might ~ be declared null and void , on the ground that the honourable gentleman had not attained his majority ; and the _ same was , in the usual way , referred to a committee , before which the following testimony was given by a female of the name of Daly ( if my memory from reading the report serves ) , who was produced to
negative the averment on which the petition was founded : — 'I remember having attended the Countess of Movnington during her accouchement in March , 1709 , and was present in herLadyship ' s room in Dangan Castle when the Honourable Arthur Wellesley was born : I do not remember the day of the month ; he was , therefore , twenty-one years old last March . ' Any one sceptical upon-the subject , may satisfy themselves by a reference to the report of the minutes of the proceedings of the Trim Election Petition , 1790-91 . —See Parliamentary Reports ( Ireland ) for that year . "
On this statement , it is maintained that the late Duke of Wellington was born in the county of Meath , and in the month of March . Another correspondent of the Irish journals states , that he discovered in the Registry of Baptisms , in St . Peter ' s Church , Dublin , an entry as follows : — " 1769 , April 30—Arthur , son of the Right Honourable Earl and Countess
of Mornington : " and hence the editor infers that the duke was born in the month of April . The duke , again , is claimed as being a native of the county of Meath , by " the Chairman of the Town Commissioners of Trim , " on the ground of an entry found in the books of that borough to the effect that , " on the 10 th day of August 1787 the Honourable Arthur
, , Wesley was proposed as a Burgess of the Corporation , together with the Honourable Gerard V . Wesley , the Honourable Henry Wesley , Thomas , Earl of Bective , the Lord Longford , the Lord Viscount Headford , the Baron Langford , and the Honourable Hercules Taylor ; " and further , that " on the 29 th day of June , 1789 , the said parties were admitted and
sworn Burgesses of the said Corporation . " As regards this last-mentioned statement , we may at once observe , that it in no way tends to elucidate the birth-place of the Honoru-able Arthur Wesley ; for the parties so mentioned were naturally admitted into the Corporation of Trim , as beingmembers of families that had large estates in the county of Meath ; and we may add that all of them were relatives , the VOL . m . 3 N
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Historic Doubts On The Birth-Place Of Celebrated Men;
the demise of the duke , a letter appeared in one of the Dublin journals , announcing the discovery , that the Honourable Arthur Wesley ( for so the duke ' s family name was originally written ) was born in the county of Meath , in the month of March , 1769 , and in proof thereof the writer says : —
"A petition was presented to the Irish House of Commons in the year 1790 , praying that the return of the Honourable Arthur Wesley for the borough of Trim might ~ be declared null and void , on the ground that the honourable gentleman had not attained his majority ; and the _ same was , in the usual way , referred to a committee , before which the following testimony was given by a female of the name of Daly ( if my memory from reading the report serves ) , who was produced to
negative the averment on which the petition was founded : — 'I remember having attended the Countess of Movnington during her accouchement in March , 1709 , and was present in herLadyship ' s room in Dangan Castle when the Honourable Arthur Wellesley was born : I do not remember the day of the month ; he was , therefore , twenty-one years old last March . ' Any one sceptical upon-the subject , may satisfy themselves by a reference to the report of the minutes of the proceedings of the Trim Election Petition , 1790-91 . —See Parliamentary Reports ( Ireland ) for that year . "
On this statement , it is maintained that the late Duke of Wellington was born in the county of Meath , and in the month of March . Another correspondent of the Irish journals states , that he discovered in the Registry of Baptisms , in St . Peter ' s Church , Dublin , an entry as follows : — " 1769 , April 30—Arthur , son of the Right Honourable Earl and Countess
of Mornington : " and hence the editor infers that the duke was born in the month of April . The duke , again , is claimed as being a native of the county of Meath , by " the Chairman of the Town Commissioners of Trim , " on the ground of an entry found in the books of that borough to the effect that , " on the 10 th day of August 1787 the Honourable Arthur
, , Wesley was proposed as a Burgess of the Corporation , together with the Honourable Gerard V . Wesley , the Honourable Henry Wesley , Thomas , Earl of Bective , the Lord Longford , the Lord Viscount Headford , the Baron Langford , and the Honourable Hercules Taylor ; " and further , that " on the 29 th day of June , 1789 , the said parties were admitted and
sworn Burgesses of the said Corporation . " As regards this last-mentioned statement , we may at once observe , that it in no way tends to elucidate the birth-place of the Honoru-able Arthur Wesley ; for the parties so mentioned were naturally admitted into the Corporation of Trim , as beingmembers of families that had large estates in the county of Meath ; and we may add that all of them were relatives , the VOL . m . 3 N