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Author: bracken123
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Hello Maureen
I was researching Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan (known as Thomas) for an author who
was writing a book on Victorian Colonial Governors, of which Thomas was one.
I did find quite a bit about him and would be very happy to share them with you. I cannot
send you any details for the moment as I have to find my research notes.
What I can remeber is that his father was a woollen draper in MIdleton who moved to Dublin
where he was described as a 'merchant.'He had two sisters and may have had
brothers but I can't remember.
Thomas went to Trinity College, Dublin and studied as a classical scholar. Following
which he was a Barrington Lacturer on Political Economy for the Dublin Statistical
Society. He then went to Hong Kong as Chief Magistrate and was later Administrator of the
Gambia, Governor of Labuan, the Falkland Islands and finally the Bahamas.
His health suffered greatly due it the various climates etc he had lived in and shortly
after arriving in the Bahamas he was so ill he was sent back to England. However, he
never arrived as he was taken ashore when the ship berthed at New York and he
subsequenmtly died in a hotel there a few hours later in 1881 aged 52.
If it is your ancestor you may like to read the book where there is a chapter on Thomas
and his wife, Alice. It is called 'Running the Show - Governors of the British
Empire' by Stephanie williams and was published in April this yeat by Penguin - Viking
(ISBN 978-0-670-9805-8).
If you can tie up any of this with your ancestor please let me know and I will let you
have any other information I think would be of use to you.
Jacqueline Day BSc(Hons)
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