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Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald CALLAGHAN [1827-1881]

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Submitted by David on Tue, 2013-05-21 15:53
Names
Given: 
Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald
Family: 
Callaghan
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1827-12-27
Birthplace (country): 
Ireland
Death
Date: 
1881-07-08

I'm looking for photos / sketches / portraits of him for the CPS project's history book. A Barrister, he succeeded Henry Tudor Davies as Chief Magistrate. He arrived in Hong Kong "on the 25th November, 1860, from England and was duly gazetted the next day." [1] But he didn't stay long: "Callahan (sic.) left within a year, having been appointed Governor of Labuan". [2]

He died in 1881 in New York, but is buried in Gravesend, UK (see http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.callaghan/439/mb.ashx)

There aren't any results in the photo search at HKPRO, and he didn't serve with Legco. I didn't find any records in the UKNA, but only did a cursory search with his full name. He may well be there under a shorter /different version of his name, as he's been listed as:

I have found a couple of mentions in family trees, and have contacted them:

References:

  1. See entries for 'CALLAGHAN, T.J.' in History of the laws and courts of Hongkong.
  2. pg 118 of A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong By G. B. Endacott
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Submitted by David on Wed, 2013-05-22 11:48.

Thanks to Maureen Pova, who sent me a copy of a short article about this man, which includes a photo. She doesn't remember the source, but I guess it is from "The Dictionary of Falklands Biography (including South Georgia): From Discovery Up to 1981", by David Tatham.

He writes that Callaghan "was born on 21 December 1827" in Ireland. I've updated the details above.