Patrick James Smyth
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick James Smyth (c.1823–1885) "Nicaragua Smyth" was a politician and journalist.[1]
He was educated at Clongowes Wood College where he became friends with Thomas Francis Meagher, with whom he joined the Repeal Association in 1844. Following his involvement in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, Smyth fled to America where he worked as a journalist.[1].
In 1853 Smyth, code named Nicaragua, planned and carried out the escape of John Mitchel from Van Diemen's Land.[1]
Smyth was elected a Home Rule Party MP for County Westmeath in 1871 but resigned his seat in 1882.[1]
In 1871 he was made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e D. J. O'Donoghue, ‘Smyth, Patrick James (c.1823–1885)’, rev. Brigitte Anton, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 11 April 2008
