This young man had taken high honours in Dublin University and had studied for the bar, where under the auspices of his eminent kinsman he had excellent prospects; but his conscience would not allow him to take a brief, lest he should be selling his talents to defeat justice.

With keen logical powers, he had warm sympathies, solid judgment of character, thoughtful tenderness, and total self-abandonment.

He before long took Holy Orders, and became an indefatigable curate in the mountains of Wicklow.

Every evening he sallied forth to teach in the cabins, and roving far and wide over mountain and amid bogs, was seldom home before midnight.

By such exertions his strength was undermined, and he so suffered in his limbs that not lameness only, but yet more serious results were feared.