Author: ENRAGHT, Baislie
Biography:
ENRAGHT, Baislie (c. 1757-96: ancestry.co.uk)
His name appears as Baislie on the title page of Bath; a Poem but other records give variant spellings: Basil, Beasley, Beasly, and Baisley. He was the eldest son of Alice Enraght (d 1803; birth surname not known) and her husband the Rev. John Enraght of Bettyfield, Co. Carlow, Ireland, who became archdeacon of Ardfert, Co. Kerry, in 1765, a year before his death. No birth record has been located but Enraght was sixteen when he matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, on 31 Mar. 1773. He earned his BA in 1776, was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn on 1 Feb. of the same year, and was called to the bar on 30 Jan. 1786. On 10 Mar. 1778 he married Amy Lyons (1757-1848) at St. Michael’s, Bath. (Enraght gave his first name as Beasly in the marriage record.) They had at least two daughters and four sons. The family lived both in London and in Bath. Enraght died in 1796 when his will was proved but no death record has been located; he may have died in Ireland. (ancestry.co.uk 15 May 2024; findmypast.co.uk 15 May 2024; Alumni Oxonienses; Records of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn [1896]; Henry Cotton and J. R. Gartin, Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae [1847]; National Archives UK PROB 11/1399/336)