a list of italian military books drawn up by an irish poetess in 1848

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Mrs. G[eorge] Lenox Conyngham [born Elizabeth Holmes, a Romantic poetess], "List of ItalianAuthors on Military Science, communicated by Major Portlock R. E., F. R. S.", and published as

"Paper 11" in the First Number of the [Engineers] Corps papers, and memoirs on military subjects: compiled [by Captain John Williams] from contributions of the officers of the Royal

engineers and the East India Company's engineers, London, John Weale, MDCCCXLVIII,

1848, pp. 62-67.



"Mrs. G. Lenox Conyngham" is Elizabeth Emmet Holmes, the only daughter of the Irish barrister and patriot Robert Holmes (1765-1859), and a niece of the patriot Robert Emmet. She was a wellknown Romantic poetess, and married in 1827 George Lenox Conyngham (1796-1887), who since1812 was employed in the Foreign Office and became First Clerk, chief of the FinancialDepartment; he was also a keen botanist. Her son George Jr., "Gino", who died young in 1866 inRio de Janeiro, was an attaché at the British Embassy in Naples: and maybe the source of the List of

Italian Authors drawn up by his mother.

[see "Lenox Conyngham Papers", in Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Crown. Susan O'Loghlen and CiaraMcDonnell, Doneraile Papers, Collection List No. 62, Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann-National Library of Ireland,http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/doneraile.pdf. The Dublin University Magazine, IV, p. 116, July 1834. David JamesO'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland. A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse,Dublin, Hodges Figgis & Co; London, Henry Frowde, Oxford U. P., 1912, p. 78. Mina Lenox Conyngham, Springhill: An Old Ulster House and the People who lived in It , Ulster Historical Foundation, 2005. C. P. Brand, Italy and the English Romantics. The Italianate Fashion in Early Nineteenth-Century England , Cambridge U. P., 1957.]

a list of italian military books drawn up by an irish poetess in 1848

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