- Thomas Myles
Sir Thomas Myles, CB (
20 April 1857 —14 July 1937 ) was a prominent Irish Home Ruler and surgeon, involved in the importation of arms for theIrish Volunteers in 1914.Thomas Myles was born in
Limerick in 1857, the third of eleven children born to John Myles, corn merchant, and his wife Prudence Bradshaw. A prominent sportsman from an early age, Myles graduated in medicine atTrinity College Dublin in 1881. One of his duties in his first job as resident surgeon at Dr. Steevens's Hospital was to render medical assistance to the victims of thePhoenix Park murders on6 May 1882 .By 1900, Myles had become President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. This was followed by a knighthood and the honorary freedom of his native city.Myles was also an active Home Ruler. He owned a yacht, the "Chotah". In 1914, he was recruited (by
James Creed Meredith ) to help in the importation of guns for theIrish Volunteers withRobert Erskine Childers ,Conor O'Brien and others. Childers landed his part of the consignment from the "Asgard" atHowth on26 July 1914 . Myles's cargo was landed by the "Chotah" atKilcoole , county Wicklow a week later, on the night of 1/2 August. Meredith himself helped out aboard the "Chotah" during the operation.Sir Thomas was appointed temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps on
21 November 1914 and also became Honorary Surgeon in Ireland to the King. He was appointed to be an Additional Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Most HonourableOrder of the Bath , for services renderedin connection with the war, the appointment to date from1 January 1917 .He died on
14 July 1937 and is buried atDeansgrange Cemetery in Dublin.References
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* "No One More Nationalist": How Sir Thomas Myles Risked His Position For The Cause, "The Irish Press ",July 16 ,1937 External links
* [http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~pwaldron/article.pdf "Limerick’s Forgotten Son: Sir Thomas Myles (1857-1937) — Sportsman, Surgeon, Sailor and Gun-Runner"]
* [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1391428&blobtype=pdf Obituary, Annals of Surgery]
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