GANNON, John Patrick, M.R.I.A., J.P. for Co. Kildare. Educ. at Clongowes and Trinity College, Dublin (Vice-Chancellor and Berkeley Medallist); member of the Society for Preserving the Irish Language; author of A Review of Irish History; The Plaint of the English Muse; eldest son of late Nicholas John Gannon, J.P., of Laragh, Co. Kildare, and Eliza Patricia, dau. of Aeneas Macdonnell; b. 1856. Res.: Laragh, Maynooth, Co Kildare.