1. William Frederick Paul Stockley was an Irish academic, Sinn Fein politician and Teachta Dala.
19 Facts About William Stockley
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William Stockley was the son of John Surtees Stockley, who had been a British Army veterinary surgeon with the Royal Artillery during the Crimean War, and Alicia Diana Catherine Gabbett of High Park, Caherconlish, County Limerick.
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William Stockley had been raised in that faith before converting to Roman Catholicism in 1894.
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William Stockley took a senior moderatorship in modern literature at Trinity College Dublin, where his classmates included Douglas Hyde, and graduated in 1883 with a BA in English and French.
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William Stockley occupied the chair until his retirement in 1931.
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William Stockley was president of the Cork Literary and Scientific Society from 1913 to 1915 and President of the Cork Library Committee from 1913 to 1930.
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William Stockley was author of several books including English Visitors to Ireland from Raleigh to Newman, Newman, Education, and Ireland, Studies in Irish Biography and Introduction to the Dream of Gerontius.
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William Stockley was an alderman of the Cork Corporation from 1920 to 1925.
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William Stockley voted against the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and refused to accept the legitimacy of the Irish Free State.
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William Stockley retained his seat, as an anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD, at the 1922 general election.
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William Stockley was defeated in the 1923 general election and subsequent November 1923 by-election.
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William Stockley married Violet Osborne in 1892, daughter of Dublin artist William Osborne and sister of Walter Osborne.
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At her death in 1893 she left one daughter, Violet Annie Alice William Stockley, who was brought up for some years by the Osborne family in Dublin.
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William Stockley later became a member of staff at Cheltenham Ladies' College and died unmarried in 1971.
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In 1908 William Stockley married Marie Germaine Kolb, the daughter of Max Kolb, director of the Botanical Gardens in Munich, and Sophie Danvin, a French pianist.
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Marie Germaine William Stockley died in Dublin in 1949 leaving one daughter, Sophia William Stockley, who in 1933 married James Laurence Mallin, eldest son of the executed Michael Mallin.
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William Stockley's brother was the Anglican clergyman Joseph John Gabbett Stockley, Canon of Lichfield Cathedral.
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William Stockley's sister-in-law was the German writer Annette Kolb, and a nephew, Alfred Kolb, was a West German diplomat who helped establish the Federal Republic's first Irish legation in 1951.
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At his death in 1943 at the age of 84, William Stockley resided at Arundel, Ballintemple, Cork.