Richard D'Alton Williams

Richard D'Alton Williams (8 October 1822 – 5 July 1862) was an Irish medical doctor and poet, "Shamrock" of the Nation.

Life He was born in Dublin, the son of James and Mary Williams, who came from Westmeath. He grew up in Grenanstown, a townland near the Devil's Bit in County Tipperary, where his father farmed for Count Dalton. He was educated at Tullabeg Jesuit College and St. Patrick's College, Carlow.

In the USA he practised medicine until he became ill and died of tuberculosis in Thibodaux, Louisiana in 1862. He is buried there in St. Joseph's Cemetery. His headstone was later erected that year by Irish members of the 8th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, then encamped in Thibodaux.

He was married to Elizabeth Connolly, with whom he had two children.