Mahaffy: A Biography of an Anglo-Irishman by W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell (LP185)

Published 1971: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green cloth with titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 281 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (LP185)

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Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland (1839–1919), classical scholar and provost of TCD, was born at Chapponnaire, near Vevey, Switzerland, on 26 February 1839, youngest of six children of Nathaniel Brindley Mahaffy, Church of Ireland clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth (née Pentland). Mahaffy's three eldest siblings had died of scarlatina in 1834. The first nine years of Mahaffy's life were spent in Switzerland and Germany, where he acquired a knowledge of French and German which later proved useful in his classical studies; his family then returned to Ireland because the famine reduced the income from their small estate near Newbliss in Co. Monaghan. After a few years in Monaghan, where Mahaffy acquired his lifelong skill at shooting and fishing – he once remarked that the only use of learning Irish was to talk with ghillies in the west of Ireland – the Mahaffys moved to Dublin, where they lived in constrained circumstances. Mahaffy was educated at home by his father with the intermittent assistance of tutors; when his academic potential became apparent his mother developed the ambition of making him a fellow of TCD.

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