About John Robert O'Connell
Lived 1868 – 1943 (aged 74–75). John Robert O'Connell was a British and Irish solicitor and businessperson.
Sir John Robert O'Connell MRIA, FSA (1868 – 28 December 1943) was an Irish solicitor, business man, and, after the death of his wife, a Roman Catholic priest.
O'Connell was born in 1868 the only son of Thomas Francis O'Connell, a solicitor of Dublin, Ireland. He is education was a Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws. He was admitted as a solicitor in Ireland in 1889, and became head of the firm of Thomas F. O'Connell & Son, Solicitors, Dublin. He held a directorship of the National Bank of Ireland, Ltd.; solicitor to Dublin and South Eastern Railway Co.; was a member of governing body of University College Cork; Vice-president Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland; and member of Board of Superintendence of Dublin Hospitals.
He married Mary Scally, eldest daughter of Thomas Scally of Deepwell in 1901. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1914, and was a justice of the peace for County Cork.
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Irish solicitor and business man
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John Robert O'Connell was born in 1868 in County Dublin.
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John Robert O'Connell died in 1943 in Brockenhurst.
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John Robert O'Connell was a solicitor and businessperson.
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John Robert O'Connell was British and Irish.
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