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Margaret Evans
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The Seduction of Benedict Arthur
Benedict Arthur was just seventeen when he wed Catherine Hacket. She was at least thirty-eight. The year was 1712 and the allegations of seduction and abduction that followed their secret marriage would lead to a famously bitter legal battle that would take almost two decades to resolve. Unable to divorce, it would not be until Catherine's death, in 1749, that Benedict could finally legitimise his mistress and children and move them into the magnificent Palladian villa that he had built on the shores of the Broadmeadow Estuary, close to the village of Donabate. This is the story of the origins of Seafield House, and how the Arthurs of Great Cabragh became the Arthurs of Seafield.
Sophia Parnell-Evans
Sophia Parnell-Evans (1780-1853) ran a large and successful farming enterprise at at time when few women had done so. She met two Queens, the ex-wife of Napoleon and knew the radical feminist Margaret Mount Cashel. A friend of both the Darwin and Condorcet families, she was daughter and sister to three of the most prominent Irish politicians of her day, and wife to another. A radical thinker in her own right, Sophia founded two primary schools in Donabate and helped in no small way to mitigate the effects of the Great Famine in her locality. The memorial round tower she built in memory of her devoted husband, the MP George Evans, revived a tradition of tower building that had lain dormant for seven centuries. As the great aunt of Charles Stewart Parnell, she even made it into the pages of Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" as the practical joker "greataunt Sophy".
The Irish Zorro
Arrested for treason at 13, William Lamport of Wexford was a pirate general at 14, and at the age of 19 played a crucial role in the Battle of Nordinen. He achieved a place at the court of Philip IV of Spain, but fled following a scandalous affair. He was later charged with plotting a revolution in Mexico. This is his story.
