To the List... My apologies... I missed "something" in the obit for Lord Lisgar. If anyone has a connection and wants the information, please contact me off line and I'll look at the article again. CAVAN WEEKLY NEWS, Friday, October 13, 1876 DEATH OF LORD LISGAR. On Friday last, the sixth of October, the Right Hon. Sir John YOUNG, Baron LISGAR, died at Bailieborough Castle, Bailieborough, having reached the age of sixty-nine years. We are sure this announcement will be received with very deep regret by an attached and prosperous tenantry, as well as by a wide circle of personal friends. The deceased Baron was the eldest son of the late Sir W. Young, Bart, by Lucy (?), youngest daughter of Colonel Charles Frederick, and was born August 31st, 1807. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated as BA., in 1829; and was called to the Bar, in 1834. He early entered upon political life; and from 1831 to 1855 represented the County of Cavan in the House of Commons. He was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in the administration of Sir Robert Peel, on the accession of that statesman to power in 1841; and in 1844 he was appointed Secretary to the Treasury, which office he held until the resignation of the Ministry in 1846. He was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in December, 1852, when Lord Aberdeen became Prime Minister; and continued to hold that office until March, 1855, when he was appointed Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, in February, 1858 he retired from that post; and in 1860 was appointed Governor of New South Wales, which he held until 1867. In 1868 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada; on retiring from that office in 1872 he returned home, was raised to the English Peerage, and appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County Cavan. It will thus be seen that during the greater part of his public life he held distinguished office of one kind or another under Her Majesty; and we believe also with credit to himself and advantage to the Crown. When the deceased Baron first essayed political life, it was as a Conservative; as such he accepted office in the Ministry of 1841; but when Sir Robert Peel adopted the principles of Free Trade, he, like Mr. Gladstone and other rising statesmen of the time, became a Peelite; and afterwards gradually diverged nearer and nearer to the Liberal party in politics. Whatever may have been the merit of certain portions of Sir Robert Peel's Free Trade policy, we cannot approve of that sudden change of opinion and policy on his part which amounted to political apostacy, and which involved the temporary ruin of the party of which he was the leader. No more can we approve of the later political life of the deceased Baron; but we shall not dwell on this part of the subject now. It affords us much pleasure, however, to turn to another part of Lord Lisgar's character and history. He was one of the best landlords in Ireland. He encouraged and promoted the prosperity of Bailieborough, near to which town he resided, by granting building leases for a long term of years, at about one shilling a foot frontage, although the depth from front to rere (sic) in each case was very considerable. He also accommodated the inhabitants with town-parks on most liberal terms. As the result of this wise and generous policy Bailieborough is now a prosperous business town with every necessary accommodation; we believe there is only one thatched house in the whole of it, the houses being generally three stories high and all slated. In short it is a credit to the estate and to the county. Nor ____ we omit to mention the active part which he took in securing for Bailieborough one of the Model Schools under the National Board. Whatever difference of opinion there may be as to the National System of Education itself, it is generally admitted that the Model Schools constitute one of its best features; and we believe the Bailieborough Model School is one of the best in Ireland. It is the only one in this county; in many instances youths have been sent to it from other counties for their education; and its pupils have frequently carried off prizes from other competitors in many departments. In the establishment and progress of this school the late Baron always took a deep and anxious interest. As we have already intimated, during the greater part of his public life be held distinguished office under the Crown and as a member of successive Governments. Those were the days of patronage, before the reign of useful and useless cramming and of competitive examination had been inaugurated. In the exercise of his patronage, the inhabitants of this county were never either forgotten or overlooked; and during the time he filled the office of Governor in several of the Colonies, he was always glad to recognize and welcome any person belonging to the county, whom accident or purpose brought under his notice. This cannot be said of all public men. To be lavish of smiles, bows, and promises during the progress of a contest election, and then upon ____________________________ the Imperial Government. And if the inhabitants of Bailieborough and the late Lord Lisgar's tenantry generally, now provided the means to found a scholarship in connection with the Queen's University, it would be an appropriate tribute of respect to the memory of their generous and beloved landlord. The remains of the deceased nobly were interred at Bailieborough Church Wednesday last. He is succeeded in the estates and Baronetcy by his nephew, WILLIAM NEED MUSTON YOUNG, who was born in Calcutta in 1847. CAVAN PETTY SESSIONS - Monday. (Before R. ERSKINE, Wm. BABINGTON, and J. FAY, Esqrs.) Constable ROSS summoned Michael M'DONALD, James PLUNKETT and John REILLY for assaulting Patrick BRADY at Kilmore on the 1st October. They were bound to keep the peace. A number of persons were fined for drunkenness. The Select Vestry of Cavan Church thankfully acknowledge the receipt of 10s. from Mr. Edward FEGAN, for the Repair Fund. DETERMINED MURDER OF AN AIRISHWOMAN IN MANCHESTER. Manchester, Thursday. At the City Police-court, to-day, William FLANAGAN, a betting man and a native of Clonmel, was charged on remand with the murder of an Irish-woman named Margaret DOGHERTY, with whom he cohabited. On the 9th of September the prisoner murdered the woman after a drunken quarrel by cutting her throat. Six years ago the prisoner nearly murdered his wife, and then cut his own throat, and whilst he had been in prison on the present charge he has attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of tin. He has in consequence been in the hospital for some time, and he appeared in court to-day with his throat bandaged and his hands tied, as they have been whilst he has been an inmate of the hospital to prevent his tearing open the bandage on his throat. Evidence was given that the deceased had said she lived in bodily fear of the prisoner, and that he had frequently abused her. The prisoner was committed to the assizes on the capital charge. AN IRISH ROMANCE - THE CODY-BUCKLEY ESTATE. Most people are aware of the fact that a man bearing the name of CODY-BUCKLEY died recently in South Australia, without issue, leaving a fortune of £100,000; but few are aware that he belonged to Limerick, and that there was a strong dash of the romantic in his life-career. The chief claimant on the estate is John BUCKLEY, aged 66, a shoemaker, who lives in a small cabin off Nelson-street, Limerick, and works hard to obtain a livelihood. The deceased Cody-Buckley, he says was his first cousin, and had no brother. He had nine sisters, but he can give no account of what became of them, farther than that they all left Limerick, and heard nothing more about them. Cody's grandfather had held a farm of 100 acres, near Rathkeale, but dying when young, his wife sold out the farm for over £1,500, and came to reside in Limerick. Things did not prosper with her, and Cody's father was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and afterwards carried on business in Roche's-street, where Cody himself learnt the same trade. When Cody was about twenty-three years of age he was employed in Mrs. Gleeson's stage coach office in Roch's-street, where he was detected in the larceny of passengers' parcels. For this he was tried and convicted at assizes in 1833, and sentenced to seven years penal servitude. He put in his time, and on being released went to work vigorously, and amassed the large fortune stated. The claimant says he got one letter from Cody after his penal servitude term had expired. The letter was dated from Wellington Valley, New South Wales, and he (the claimant) heard that other letters had come addressed to him in Limerick from the same place, but as he was then going about working as a journeyman he never received them. This may have led Cody to believe that the claimant was dead, as no doubt the letters were returned to the writer. The claimant says he kept the letter he got from his cousin for fifteen years, and it was taken off by mistake in a box belonging to a friend that emigrated to America. The claimant says that Cody had a "natural" brother some fourteen or fifteen years older than himself. He shared the fate of Cody, having been tried for stealing wheat in 1830, and he was sent into penal servitude for seven years; but previous to his conviction the claimant served three years' apprenticeship to him as a shoemaker in the Pennywell road. After his term was up he sent for his wife, and she sailed for Australia to join him. The claimant says that he had only one brother, who died without issue, and seven sisters, all of whom are dead save one named Biddy, who lives next door to him. His wife died about a year ago. He has a son and two daughters living in Limerick. The son enlisted about five years ago in the 70th Regiment, with which corps he is now serving in Bengal. The Cody-Buckley Estate is now before the Supreme Court in South Australia, and the claimant has an intimation therefrom that it would be well that he should employ some legal person to support his claims on the estate of the relative. This is rather embarrassing to a poor shoemaker; but he is full of expectation that he will obtain the larger portion of the property, as he is the nearest "blood" relation to the deceased Cody-Buckley, with the exception of his sisters, if any of them be alive, which he does not believe. (County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project)