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

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, 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

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; 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

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in 1914, and was a justice of the peace for

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. Following the death of his wife in 1929 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Westminster by

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. He was attached for a time to Warwick-street Church and St. Patrick's Soho-square, London, and died at

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, Hampshire, on 28 December 1943.

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