- William Stockley
Professor William F. P. (Frederick Paul) Stockley,
M.A. D.Litt. , (29 June 1859 – 22 July 1943) was an Irish academic andSinn Féin politician andTeachta Dála .Early life
Born in
Templeogue , then inCo Dublin , he was the son of Mr. John Surtees Stockley, RHA, he was educated atRathmines School.Among his classmates were
Douglas Hyde andLouis Claude Purser .Religion
In 1894 he became a
Roman Catholic .Academic
In 1893, he graduated from
Trinity College, Dublin , before taking a senior moderatorship in modern English literature.From 1896 to 1903 he was professor at the
University of Ottawa and at theUniversity of New Brunswick . He then held the post of headmaster at St Mary's College, Halifax,Nova Scotia . In 1905, he was appointed professor of English atUniversity College, Cork . He occupied the chair until his retirement in 1931.He was president of the Cork Literary and Scientific Society from 1913 to 1915 and President of the Cork Library Committee from 1913 to 1930.
He 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".
Politics
Stockley was a member of
Sinn Féin . He was an alderman of theCork Corporation from 1920 to 1925. In 1920, an attempt wade made on his life by police agents. [ [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/s/Stockley,WFP/life.htm "William F. P. Stockley"] , Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) profile.] In the 1921, he was elected a Sinn Féin member to theSecond Dáil for the National University of Ireland constituency. He voted against theAnglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and refused to accept the legitimacy of theIrish Free State .He retained his seat, as an Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate, in the 1922 general election. Along with others, he maintained that the
Irish Republic continued to exist and that the rump Second Dáil, composed of anti-Treaty TDs who refused to take their seats in the Free State parliament, was the only legitimate governmental authority in Ireland. He was defeated in the 1923 general election and subsequent 3 November 1923 by-election.In 1938, he was one of seven remaining abstentionist Second Dáil TDs who transferred the "authority" of what they believed was the Government of the Irish Republic to the
IRA Army Council .Family
In 1892, Stockley married Violet Osborne, daughter of Mr. William Osborne, RHA, of Dublin. She died in 1893. In 1908, he married Marie Germaine Kolb, daughter of Max Kolb, of the Royal Botanic Gardens in
Munich . They had two daughters: Violet Annie Alice, who was a member of staff atCheltenham Ladies' College , and Sophia, who married Seamus Mallin of Dublin. His brother was the Very Rev. Canon J. J. G. (Joseph John Gabbett) Stockley ofLichfield Cathedral .At his death, at the age of 84, Stockley resided at Arundel,
Ballintemple ,Cork . He is buried inSt. Finbarr's Cemetery , Cork.ee also
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Irish republican legitimatism Notes
References
*Oireachtas-database|1=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=2&MemberID=1056&ConstID=156
* "Obituary: Prof W. F. B. Stockley", "Irish Independent", 24 July 1943, p. 3.External links
* [http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1414 Stockley's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)
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