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| Bryan Thomas MAHON (1862 - 1930) |
| General, Sir |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Bryan Thomas MAHON (1862 - 1930) | Henry Blake MAHON | |||
| Matilda SEYMOUR | ||||
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| b. 02 Apr 1862 at Galway, Ireland |
| d. 29 Sep 1930 at Dublin, Ireland aged 68 |
| Parents: |
| Henry Blake MAHON |
| Matilda SEYMOUR |
| Siblings (1): |
| Kathleen Mary MAHON ( - 1941) |
| Events in Bryan Thomas MAHON (1862 - 1930)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 02 Apr 1862 | Bryan Thomas MAHON was born | Galway, Ireland | |||
| 29 Sep 1930 | 68 | Bryan Thomas MAHON died | Dublin, Ireland | ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Mahon
Mahon was born at Belleville, County Galway on 2 April 1862. He became a lieutenant in the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars in 1883. He served in Sudan in the Dongola Expedition in 1896 as Staff officer to Sir Herbert Kitchener, and was present at the Battle of Ferkeh and the operations at Hafir. In 1899 he took part in the final defeat of the Khailfa as Assistant Adjutant general in charge of Intelligence, and was mentioned in despatches (dated 25 November 1899) by Colonel Wingate with the following words: I cannot speak in sufficiently strong terms of the excellence of the services performed by this officer. I invariably placed him in general command of all the mounted troops; his personal disregard for danger, intrepid scouting, and careful handling of men, all fit him for high command; his bold and successful seizure of the position in front of Fedil's camp, and his conduct of the fight before I came up, show him to possessed of exceptional qualities as a commander. During the Second Boer War Colonel Mahon led a flying column 2,000 strong, and consisting mainly of South African volunteers from Kimberley, which came to the Relief of Mafeking. The town, which had been under siege for seven months by Boer forces, was facing starvation. Mahon was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his services during the operations, and was invested with the order by King Edward VII on 2 June 1902. He was briefly Governor of Khartoum in 1903. During the First World War he commanded the 2nd (Sialkot) Cavalry Brigade[citation needed] and the 10th (Irish) Division during the Gallipoli Campaign. The 10th Division landed at Suvla Bay on the night of 6–7 August 1915. In September he moved with the Division to be head of the British Salonika Army to support Serbia at the onset of the Macedonian campaign. In 1916 General Mahon took up command of the Western Frontier Force in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. He was then appointed as the Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in 1916 in the lead up to the Anglo-Irish war. He retired from the British Army at the end of August 1921. After his retirement he was elected as a privy council member of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland. He was appointed to Seanad Éireann by the President of the Executive Council, William T. Cosgrave, in 1922 and 1925. He was elected to the Seanad in 1928, and served until his death in 1930. Mahon was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in May 1902. http://www.kildare.ie/ehistory/index.php/death-of-sir-bryan-mahon/ DEATH OF SIR BRYAN MAHON KILDARE OBSERVER 27th SEPTEMBER 1930 Death of Sir Bryan Mahon GREAT MILITARY GENERAL AND SPORTSMAN We deeply regret to announce the death of Senator Sir Bryan Mahon, K.C.B., D.S.O., which took place on Tuesday at Earlsfort Mansions, Dublin, where he had been living for some months. Sir Bryan had been in indifferent health for more than a year, notwithstanding which he attended to his duties in the Senate, up to its adjournment in July. His two step-sons, Sir John Milbanke and Mr. Toby Milbanke, and his sister, Mrs. Tweedy, were by his bedside when he passed peacefully away at four o’clock a.m. Sir Bryan had won distinction as a soldier before he began a career of public life in his country. After some years of active service in Egyptian and Soudan campaigns, he came suddenly into prominence through his leadership of the force which relieved Mafeking in 1900. At the opening of the Great War he was a Divisional Commander in India, and when the new divisions of “Kitchener’s Army” were formed he was appointed to the command of the Tenth (styled the Irish) Division, and in due course took the division to the Balkan theatre of war. Invalided home, he returned in time to succeed Sir John Maxwell in the Irish Command after the insurrection of 1916. Retiring in 1921, he settled down as a country gentleman, taking Mullaboden, Ballymore Eustace, Kildare, as his permanent home. After the Treaty settlement he threw in his lot with the new State and accepted President Cosgrave’s invitation to become one of the first members of the Senate then constituted. He took no prominent part in politics, but had an important influence on the fortunes of the Irish Free State through his activity in restoring the amenities of life in Southern Ireland through the revival of sport, and his example, as a member of the gentry class, in helping to rebuild the social structure in the country. Bryan Thomas Mahon was born at Belleville, Co. Galway, on the 2nd April, 1862, the eldest son of Henry Blake Mahon and Matilda, daughter of Colonel Seymour, of Ballymore Castle, County Galway. He was educated at Dr. Wall’s School, Portarlington, and his schoolboy companions included some Irishmen who afterwards became prominent, including Lord Carson, who was a cousin of his, and Sir Wm. Ridgeway, the distinguished classical scholar, who later became professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University. The most prominent instance of his tactful action in the many difficult situations of the Irish trouble was his decision to withdraw the military from the streets of Dublin on the day appointed for the funeral of Thomas Ashe, who had died while on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail. On the death of Mr. E. Kennedy of Bishopscourt, in 1925, Gen. Sir Bryan Mahon was persuaded to accept the control of the Punchestown meeting, and under his able management many improvements were made at the world-famed meeting. The funeral took place on yesterday (Friday) from the UniversityChurch, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, after Requiem Mass to Mullaboden, and was private. |