Thom's Irish Who's Who/Flattery, Maurice Douglas

2961682Thom's Irish Who's Who — Flattery, Maurice Douglas


FLATTERY, Maurice Douglas, Lawyer, Scientist. Financier; b. Dungarvan, Ireland, Feb. 6 1870; British Army, 1885-92; Schoolmaster, Instructor in Fencing and Gymnastics, Musketry. Passed with Honours for Captain in 1887 while still a Corporal. Medal Royal Humane Society for saving life of soldier at Sandgate; medal Mass. Humane Society for saving life, Bournedale, United States, 1893. Studied both at Harvard University Medical School and Law School. Professor of Physiology. University of Nebraska, 1894; Centre College, 1895-1898; admitted to Bar, 1897. Practised Law, Boston, 1898 to present time; Author of law treatises and following novels:—Wife or Maid? A Pair of Knaves. Dramas—The Subterfuge; Faith Mather; Annie Laurie. Operas—(Author and Composer) Queen of the Harem; The Duchess of Dublin. Is known as organiser and controller of large industries. President, Boston Record Co., Liberty Press Co., Murray and Tregurtha, Marine Motor Co., Old Colony Woollen Mills Co.; Managing Director of Loey's Theatres Co.; also Managing Director of State Theatre Co., New Columbia Co.. Globe Vaudeville Co., Fine Arts Theatre Co., Orpheum Theatre Co., Copley Theatre Co., and of various theatrical and moving picture enterprises; owns the Copley Theatre, Boston; Director Eastern Casualty Insurance Co., Citizens' National Bank, Canton Trust Co., and various other Corporations. Member Harvard University Cancer Commission, and Fellow and Member of leading Scientific and Learned Societies. Established and endowed a Radium Clinic at Carney Hospital. Fellowships in Research Medicine at Harvard University, also University of Lyons, France, etc., also the Flattery annual prize of $500 and gold medal for award by Harvard to the Scientist making discovery of greatest value in preservation of health or prevention of disease; endowed other funds of similar nature. Was one of the Captains of Industry who served at $1.00 a year during the war, in Washington. Organised the Dept. of Industrial Survey. Member, Boston Chamber of Commerce; Director, Managers' Association: Massachusetts Theatre Owners' Association, etc., Member City Club and Harvard Clubs of Boston, Harvard Club of New York, etc., etc. Father: Michael A., of Ballycumber, Ireland, and Forte Dodge, Iowa. Mother: Catherine O'Brien, Dublin; m. Georgina, dau. of David Mackie, of London (Banker). One child, Georgina, m. to Captain R. A. Whitelegg, U.S.A. Winter Residence: 48 Lanark Road, Boston; Summer: Hyannisport, Cape Cod.