himself in such a manner as to obtain much of the glory which accrued to the British arms from that brilliant achievement. When peace was restored to that country by the overthrow of the house of Hyder, and the nominal re-establishment of the hereditary rajah on the throne of Mysore, the Marquess Wellesley entrusted to him the important office of resident at that court, in which and in other diplomatic employments, he exhibited political ́talent, not inferior to his military abilities. His conciliatory manners and firmness of mind, joined to a complete knowledge of the language, manners, and history, of the natives, rendered him as popular among them, as among his countrymen. On his return to England, he was elevated to the dignity of a baronet; and died in April 1813, unfortunately for that country, which he had served with a warmth of public spirit almost unequalled during a period of forty-two years.

MARMADUKE COGHILL

Was born in Dublin, on the 28th December, 1673, and was admitted a fellow commoner of Trinity college in 1687; here he took his degree of doctor of civil law, and was chosen one of its representatives in parliament, which mark of respect and esteem his constituents conferred on him till the time of his decease. After filling several important offices, he was appointed chancellor of the Irish exchequer, in 1735, which situation he held with great repute during the rest of his life. He died of that fatal disorder, the gout in the stomach, in 1738, and was interred in St. Andrew's church-yard. In public life he was a man of unwearied diligence and clear judgment, an equally upright counsellor of the crown, and independent representative of the people. As one of the first commissioners of the board of first fruits, he may be said to have organised that body, and to have been the prime cause of all the benefits which arise to the established church in Ireland from his exertions. In private life he was univer

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sally beloved for his benevolence, affability, and sweetness of temper. His sister, Mary Coghill, erected the church of Drumcoudra, near Dublin, as a monument of respect and affection to his memory, and ornamented it with a tomb, sculptured by Scheemaker.

SIR JOHN COLE

WAS descended from the ancient family of the Coles of Devonshire, and was the second son of Sir William Cole, who was the first of the family settled in Ireland.

The year of Sir John's birth has not been recorded. During the unhappy dissensions, he was very active under his father, particularly in the relief of Enniskillen, which having been besieged nine weeks by fifteen hundred men, under Philip M'Hugh O'Reily, they were surprised in a sally by Walter Johnson, an officer under Sir William, who being seconded by Sir John, with his foot-company, and some volunteers, they raised the siege, and led the pursuit of the enemy for seven miles, as far as Maguire's bridge.

After the reduction of Ireland by the parliament, he was appointed, with others, on the 21st November, 1653, commissioners for the precinct of Belturbet, to consider how the titles of the Irish and others to an estate in Ireland, and also their delinquency according to their respective qualifications, might be put into the most speedy and exact way of adjustment.

On the 27th of February following, he had the pay of 187. 4s. allowed him by the month, as governor of Enniskillin, and being very instrumental in promoting the restoration of King Charles II. his majesty by privy seal, dated at Whitehall, 4th August, and by patent, 23rd January, 1660, created him a baronet, in consideration of his very many good services performed to him; and on the 13th of December gave him a colonel's commission in a regiment of foot, to which he was appointed on the 22nd of March following; having on the 19th béen constituted

one of the commissioners for the settlement of the kingdom, for which purpose he had a grant of lands.

He was member of parliament for the county of Fermanagh, of which county he was appointed custos rotulorum on the 2nd of April, 1661. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Chichester, Esq. of Dungannon, by whom he had four sons and seven daughters, and died in or about the year 1693.

JOHN COLGAN,

A NATIVE of the county of Donegal, and celebrated, both as an author and a scholar; was a strict Franciscan friar in the Irish convent of St. Anthony of Padua, in Louvain, in which he was professor of divinity. He was thoroughly acquainted with the Irish language, and likewise possessed a great knowledge of the antiquities and church history of his country, by the acquirement of which learning, he was admirably qualified for the praiseworthy and laborious work in which he had engaged, namely, the collecting and writing the lives of the Irish saints; a work in which he was greatly aided by the collections made for the same purpose by Hugh Ward*, who was unfortunately prevented from carrying his intentions into effect by sudden death. He (Colgan) gave up the greater part of his time and talents to this work, and has published two large folio volumes, illustrated with many notes, both useful and learned, especially in what regards

* Hugh Ward was likewise a native of the county of Donegal, but received part of his education at Salamanca and part in Paris; and afterwards was made lecturer, and then guardian of the Irish college at Louvain. Prior to which he was admitted into the order of Franciscan friars at Salamanca, in the year 1616. He was a man deeply read in Hibernian antiquities, and undertook the writing a complete History of the Lives of the Saints of Ireland. For which purpose he employed one Michael O'Clery, who was likewise a friar of the same order, and sent him from Louvain to Ireland to search for manuscripts and to collect materials for the work. The finishing of which was prevented by the author's sudden decease, on the 8th November, 1635; and the whole of this papers came into the possession of John Colgan, and were singularly useful to him.

the ancient topography of Ireland, and has annexed to them large and complete tables. The last of these volumes in order was the first printed and entitled "Acta Sanctorum Veteris et Majoris Scotia seu Hiberniæ, &c. &c." Lov. 1645.-Folio.-His intention (says Ware) was, first to publish one general Treatise, or Synopsis of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Ireland. Secondly, The Acts of St. Patrick, St. Columb, and St. Bridgit. And, thirdly, to write the Lives and Acts of the other Saints of Ireland, according to the order of the months and days, which would occupy many volumes. But the first part of this last work being earliest ready for the press, he presented it to the public eye, and called it the first volume, though the third of what he intended for his Ecclesiastical Antiquities. Into this volume he brought all the saints of Ireland who died during the first three months of the year, and it is suspected some Scots and English, such as he could lay the least claim to; yet is far short (continueth the same author) of making sufficient reprisals on Mr. Dempster who with so bare a face hath plundered the Irish calendar, and from thence got the nick-name of ayroxins, or the Saint-stealer. Peter Talbot, a man of "good parts and learning," gives our author the title and character of Incitorum Corrosor, or a raker together of uncertain and unknown lives. The second volume of this work was printed at Louvain in 1647. In this volume he hath given seven different lives of St. Patrick, five of St. Columb, and six of St. Bridgit, to which he has annexed appendixes, notes, and indexes.

He died at Louvain in 1658, and his death frustrated his intention of giving to the public the lives of the Irish Saints for the other nine months of the year.

Several manuscript volumes of his writings are yet remaining at Louvain, the titles of which are to be found in Harris's Edition of Ware.

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ST. COLUMBA, OR, COLUMKILLE, WAS one of the greatest patriarchs of the monastic order in Ireland, and the apostle of the Picts. To distinguish him from other saints of the same name, he was surnamed Columkille, from the great number of monastic cells, called by the Irish, killes, of which he was the founder. He was of the noble extraction of Neil, and was born at Gartan, in the county of Tyrconnel, in 521, and early learned the divine Scriptures, and the lessons of an ascetic life under the celebrated bishop of St. Ferrian, in his great school of Cluain-iraird, and esteemed nothing worthy his pursuit that did not assist him in the disengagement of his mind from the world, and the advance of religion and holiness in his heart. Being advanced to the order of priesthood in 546, he gave admirable lessons of piety, and sacred learning, and was soon attended by many disciples. He founded, about the year 550, the great monastery of Dair-magh, now called Durrogh, and Sir James Ware mentions a MS. copy of the four gospels of St. Jerome's translation, adorned with silver plates, as then extant, preserved in this abbey. He likewise founded many other monasteries of less note; and the same antiquarian observes, that a rule composed by St. Columba, then existed in the old Irish. This rule he settled in the hundred monasteries, which he founded in Ireland and Scotland. King Dermot (like great men of more modern times) being offended at the zeal which reproved public vices, St. Columba determined on leaving his native country; and with his twelve disciples passed into Scotland, and was successful in converting the king of the northern Picts, together with his subjects. These Picts, having embraced the faith, gave St. Columba the little island of Hy, or Iona, called from him-Y-colin-kille, twelves miles from the land, in which he built the great monastery, which was for several ages the chief seminary of North Britain, and continued long the burying-place of