WILLIAM

See also:

• CHICHESTER

CHICHESTER (1813-1883)  , Ist Baron O'Neill, a clergyman, on succeeding to the estates as heir-general, assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of O'Neill; and in 1868 was created Baron O'Neill of Shane's Castle . On his death in 1883 he was succeeded by his son Edward, 2nd Baron O'Neill (b . 1839), who was member of parliament for Co . Antrim 1863—188o, and who married in 1873 Louisa, daughter of the 11th earl of Dundonald . For the history of the ancient Irish kings of the Hy Neill see: The Book of Leinster, edited with introduction by R . Atkinson (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 188o); The Annals of Ulster, edited by W . M . Hennessy and B . MacCarthy (4 vols., Dublin, 1887—19o1); The Annals of Loch Ce, edited by W . M . Hennessy (Rolls Series, London, 1871) . For the later period see: P .

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Short History of Ireland (London, 1893), and A Social History of Ancient . Ireland (2 vols., London, 1903) ; The Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters, edited by J . O'Donovan (7 vols., Dublin, 1851); Sir J . T . Gilbert, History of the Viceroys of Ireland (Dublin, 1865), and, especially for Owen Roe O'Neill, Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, 1641—1652 (Irish Archaeol . Soc., 3 vols., Dublin, 187) ; also History of the Irish Confederation and the War in Ireland (Dublin, 1882); John O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees (Dublin, 1881) ; The Montgomery MSS., The Flight of the Earls, 1607 (p . 767), edited by George Hill (Belfast, 1878); Thomas Carte, History of the Life of .Tames, Duke of Ormonde (3 vols., London, 1735) ; C . P . Meehan, Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel (Dublin, 1886) ; Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, with an Account of the Earlier History (3 vols., London, 1885—189o) ; J . F . Taylor, Owen Roe O'Neill (London, 1896) ; John Mitchell, Life and Times of Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, with an Account of his Predecessors, Con, Shane, Turlough (Dublin, 1846) ; L .

O'Clery, Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Dublin, 1893) . For the O'Neills of the 18th

century, and especially the 1st Viscount O'Neill, see The Charlemont Papers, and F . Hardy, Memoirs of J . Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont (2 vols., London, 1812) . The O'Neills of Ulster: Their History and Genealogy, by Thomas Mathews (3 vols., Dublin, 1907), an ill-arranged and uncritical work, has little historical value, but contains a mass of traditional and legendary lore, and a number of translations of ancient poems, and genealogical tables of doubtful authority . (R . J . M.) O'NEILL, ELIZA (1791—1872), Irish actress, was the daughter of an actor and stage manager . Her first appearance on the stage was made at the Crow Street theatre in 1811 as the Widow Cheerly in The Soldier's Daughter, and after several years in Ireland she came to London and made an immediate success as Juliet at Covent Garden in 1814 . For five years she was the favourite of the town in comedy as well as tragedy, but in the latter she particularly excelled, being frequently compared, not to her disadvantage, with Mrs Siddons . In 1819 she married William Wrixon Becher, an Irish M.P. who was created a baronet in 1831 . She never returned to the stage, and died on the 29th of October 1872 .