Robert Stearne Tighe

Robert Stearne Tighe (1760–1835) was an Irish writer and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Robert Stearne Tighe with his wife Catherine

Life

He was the son of Stearne Tighe (died 1762), Member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy, and his wife Arabella, daughter of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and Edith Proby, born 3 March 1760.[1] He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1776, and in the same year inherited the estate of his grandfather Robert Tighe.[2]

Tighe was elected to the Royal Society in 1793.[2] He died on 21 May 1835.[1]

Works
  • Melantius: A Letter Addressed to Mr. Orde Upon the Education of the People (1787)[3]
  • Observations and reflections on the state of Ireland (1804), [4] with a reply Considerations on the late and present state of Ireland.[5]

Family

Tighe married:[1]

  1. In 1786, Catherine Morgan (died 1819), daughter of Hugh Morgan of Cottelstown, County Sligo; they had sons Robert Morgan, William Stearne, and Hugh Usher, and a daughter Catherine who married William Henry Worth Newenham of Coolmore, son of William Worth Newenham.[6][7]
  2. Anna Dilkes (died 1823), sister of Major-General William Thomas Dilkes.

Notes
  1. Burke, John (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 12–3. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  2. "Tighe, Robert Stearne (TH776RS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Tighe, Robert Stearne (1787). Melantius: A Letter Addressed to Mr. Orde Upon the Education of the People ... P. Byrne. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  4. Tighe, Robert Stearne (1804). Observations and reflections on the state of Ireland: respectfully submitted to the consideration of the British nation. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  5. Library, HM Treasury and Cabinet Office (1858). Catalogue of the books forming the Treasury Library. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office. p. 57. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  6. "Lord Byron and his Times, William Henry Worth Newenham (1785–1842)". Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  7. Neale, John Preston (1826). Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. p. 248. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
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