Author: Gregory, Edward Tighe
Biography:
GREGORY, Edward Tighe (c. 1793-1858: ancestry.co.uk)
His parents were Francis Gregory and his wife Sarah Sophia Skipton who were married in Dublin on 2 Aug. 1786. Nothing is known about his early education but he served as an ensign in the 38th Regiment of Foot in the Peninsular War, earning the general service medal for being at San Sebastian, Nivelle, and the Nive. On his return to Ireland he studied at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1816, MA 1819, LL.B. and LL.D. 1825). He must have been ordained in about 1819; in 1821, as stated on the title page of The Triumph of Innocence, he was perpetual curate of Killygarvan in County Donegal. He married Marianne North of County Westmeath on 19 Feb. 1819; they had two sons and a daughter. He was appointed rector and vicar of Kilmore, County Meath, in 1832 and he remained there for the rest of his life. He died on 14 Nov. 1858 and was buried in the churchyard of his Kilmore parish church. His other publications include sermons on the deaths of George III and Frederick, Duke of York; Observations on the Opposition to the Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland (1822); Ireland in 1830 [1831]; Ireland in 1831 (1832); and The Twelfth of July (1840). (ancestry.co.uk 10 Jan. 2022; Catalogue of Graduates; Saunders’s Newsletter 27 Feb. 1819; Gareth Glover, Letters from the Battle of Waterloo [2018]) SR