Author: Gahagan, Henry
Biography:
GAHAGAN, Henry (1780-1834: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born in July 1780 and baptised on 13 Oct. 1780 at Cuddalore, Madras, India, the second of perhaps as many as nine children of Terrence Gahagan, physician, (1749-1814) and his wife Lucy Brahm (1762-1836), who had married at St. Andrew, Holborn, London, on 27 Dec. 1777. He was educated at Westminster School and initially entered Trinity College Cambridge on 6 May 1799, but migrated to Christ Church, Oxford (matric. 24 June 1799, BA 1803, MA 1806). He also entered Lincoln’s Inn on 26 Mar. 1799 and was called to the Bar in 1805. He practised as an advocate in Madras and was appointed Registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court in 1808. He returned to England in 1817 and lived at 13 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Sq., Marylebone, London, from where he signed the preface to the work listed here and where he died on 24 Feb. 1834 and was buried at St. Marylebone on 3 Mar. 1834. He never married and left most of his wealth to his mother but left “my beloved friend” Sarah Catesby (later Jones) an annuity of £200. (ancestry.co.uk 12 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 12 Jul. 2022; Morning Post 25 Feb. 1834; GM Apr. 1834, 450; John Holland, The Psalmists of Britain [1843],2: 325-6; OWW Records at hughpagan.com) AA