Author: Rough, Michael
Biography:
ROUGH, Michael (1783-1850: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born in Ireland, possibly at Carrick-on-Shannon, but nothing is known about his parents or his education. Some information about his life can be gleaned from his 1823 Eddystone Light-house where he is identified on the title page as “late school-master of the Union of Cahir, Diocese of Lismore, Ireland.” A brief account of his situation in the same book states that he “has been nearly fourteen years in His Majesty’s Service” but was reduced “from a respectable situation in life to extreme want” and has a family to support. Ancestry records show that he served in the navy, on HMS Bedford (whose officers are named and praised in Eddystone Light-house) and HMS Puissant, from 1807-15. In 1823 he was living in Bristol; a note at the end of his book solicits writing work to be left for him at a Bristol printing office. Subsequently he moved to London. On 14 Jan. 1850 he was admitted to the St. Pancras workhouse where he died on 27 Mar. 1850; he was buried in St. Pancras. He also published An Illustration of the Dangerous Consequences Arising to Youth from Listening to the Destructive Discourse of Atheists, Deists, & Freethinkers, to which is added, an Ode to Britain (London, 1820?). (ancestry.co.uk 26 Nov. 2020)
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