Francis Stoughton Sullivan
Francis Stoughton Sullivan (1715-1766) was an Irish lawyer and Professor of Oratory.
Sullivan was born in Galway, a member of the Kerry O'Sullivan More family, and educated at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with an LL.D. in 1745. He was called to the Bar the following year. In 1750 he was appointed Professor of Laws in Trinity, in 1759 Professor of Oratory, and three years later the first Professor of Feudal and English Law. He is especially noted for excellence in the latter. He also had a great interest in Irish history and Irish manuscripts all his life, and employed native scribes in preparing editions of 'Leabhar Gabhála' and the Annals of the Four Masters which never saw print.[1] He died in Dublin on 1 March 1766. His son, William Francis Sullivan (1756–1830) served in the American Navy, and published plays and poems.
Bibliography
- An historical treatise on the feudal law, and the constitution and laws of England; with a commentary on Magna Charta, and ... illustrations of many of the English statutes. In a course of lectures read in the University of Dublin, J. Johnson and J. Payne, 1772.
References
- ↑ p146, O Catháín, Diarmaid 'Charles O'Conor of Belanagare: Antiquary and Irish Scholar' in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, v.119, (1989)
See also
- Galway Authors, Helen Maher, 1976.
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