Charleville, Lord, 326.
Chatham, Mr Drummond at, 39. Christie, Mr, 33, 36.
Church, the, in Ireland, 204, 235, 241, 304, 306, 307. Clans, Irish, 187 sqq. Clare, county of, 363.
Clare, Lord, on Irish confiscations, 218. Colby, Colonel, Mr Drummond's in- troduction to, 46; his direction of the Ordnance Survey, 54-61, 67, 70, 74, 80; his compensating measuring bar, 86, 95, 440. Combe, Dr Andrew, on the authorship of the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 330, 334.
Comrie, village of, 4. Confiscations, Irish, 217. Connaught, 205, 364
Constabulary, Irish, 266 sqq., 451, 453. Coolin Hills, 59.
Cooper, Austin, murder of, 313; punishment of the murderers, 339. Cork, county of, 355.
Corporations, municipal, in Ireland, 304, 307.
Corrie Habbie, a surveying station, 54, 56.
Cox, Robert, 174, 430. Craig, Rev. A., 44.
Crime in Ireland, means of suppress- ing, 265 sqq., 341, 454, 459; de- crease of, 285.
Croker, Mr, his attacks on Mr Drum- mond, 146, 151.
Cromwell in Ireland, 212, 221, 240.
DAILEY, Alderman, 267. Danes in Ireland, 193.
Davis, Sir John, on Ireland, 189, 239. Dawson, Captain, 29, 41, 43, 63, 66, 102, 103, 143; his account of the Ordnance Survey in the Highlands of Scotland, 55.
De Beaumont, Gustave, his work on Ireland, 240.
Defenders, an Irish faction, 226, 230. De Vere, Aubrey, on English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds, 240. Diamond, Battle of the, 296, 303, 312.
Distraint for debt, 284.
Divis mountain, 74, 76, 80, 439. Donard, Slieve, 81.
Donegal, county of, 363, 370. Donoughmore, Lord, letter to, 314- 324.
Down, county of, 355, 357.
Drummond, Mrs Elizabeth, mother of Thomas Drummond, 3, 4, 8, 17, 175, 177; letters to her from him, 21, 26, 27, 41, 76, 126, 128, 135, 142, 143, 151, 182, 278, 406, 409, 410, 417, 424, 425; from Mr Robe, 181; from Mr Littleton, 182; from her daughter-in-law, 411, 413; from Lord Normanby, 412; from Lord Ebrington, 427; from Lord Spencer, 427; from Sir John F. W. Herschel, 437, 73, 170. Drummond, James, father of Thomas Drummond, 3-5.
Drummond, John, 3, 17, 162, 180. Drummond, Miss, 3, 64, 175, 407; quoted, 6, 8, 17, 30, 114, 152; letters from Mr Drummond to, 117, 421; the Drummond Scholarship founded by, 430, 465.
Drummond, Mrs Maria, wife of Mr Drummond, 184; letters from her to his mother, 411, 413; her last interview with him, 426. Drummond, Thomas, his birth and parentage, 1; early circumstances, 5-8; mechanical ingenuity, 15, 40, 43, 128, 169, 172; attachment to his mother, 8, 185; at school, 9; a pupil of Professor Jardine, 11; literary culture, 11, 13, 44; mathe- matical studies, 12, 13, 28, 34, 38, 65; at University of Edinburgh, 12, 66; boyish traits, 15; voyage to Argyleshire, 17; at Woolwich, 14. 43; enters the Royal Engineers, 37; studies at Plymouth, 38; Chatham, 39, 43; visits France, 40; pontoon invented by, 40; adventure on a bridge of casks, 42; in Edinburgh, 43,78,81; thinks of going to the bar, 44; his views of the qualifications necessary for that career, 45; en- gages in the Ordnance Survey, 46; his services in that department in Scotland, 62, and Ireland, 64, 112, 247; studies chemistry, 65; his lime-light, 66, 73, 75, 77, 81, 83, 438; his papers on it in the “Phi- losophical Transactions," 67, 117, 119, 125; his heliostat, 70, 81, 171, 438; stationed on Slieve Snaght, in Ireland, 75; injury to his health from exposure, 75, 78, 81; his at- tempts to improve the barometer, 80; measurement of the base at Lough Foyle, 81, 83, 112, 167, 440; his share in the construction of the compensation measuring bar, 86, 90,
106; his letter to Sir John F. W. Herschel respecting the Irish base- line, 107; again in bad health, 113– 115; trial of his Light as a means of illuminating lighthouses, 114, 128; elected a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, 119; his visit to William IV. at Brighton, 128; resides in Park Road, London, 135; close of his scientific career, 136, 167; remarks on that career, 168; is a member of the Boundary Com- mission, 140, 161; attacked by Mr Croker, 146; backed by Professors Barlow, Airy, and Wallace, and Sir John Herschel, 148, 150, 154, 157; attacked by Mr Pollock, 149, 151; how remunerated for his ser- vices, 152, 181; recruits his health at Brighton, 160, 181; letter from his fellow Commissioners requesting him to sit for his portrait, 160, 182; letter on the Perthshire election, 163; letter to Mr Aitchison of Drum- more on the Leith election, 164; declines to become a candidate for the Chair of Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh, 167; engaged in pre- paring an account of the measure- ment of the base at Lough Foyle, 167; is Private Secretary to Lord Althorp, 178, 173, 185; Miss Mar- tineau's reminiscences of, 173, 175, 255, 283, 312, 326, 327, 430, 433; visits Brougham Hall, 177; communications to the Scotsman newspaper, 177; writes in the London papers, 178; letter on the Duke of Wellington's accession to the office of prime minister, 179; again in bad health, 181, 182; goes to Ireland as Under Secretary, 183, 184; his marriage, 184; his share in the administration of Irish affairs, 243 sqq., 432; his intimate knowledge of the country and people, 247; his power and love of work, 250, 253; his account of Ribandism, 260, 264; organisation of the constabulary by, 266; sup- pression of faction fights, 269, 276, of Orangeism, 277 sqq., 296, and of Ribandism, 288; correspondence with Colonel Verner, 296; corre- spondence with the Tipperary magistrates, 314, 332, 335; his maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 322, 325, 327; anger excited by it, 325, 827; con-
troversy as to its authorship, 329; proved to be Mr Drummond's, 331, 339, 366; its effects on the fortunes of the Whig Government, 339; his scheme for increasing the prosperity of Ireland, 341; Commission on Irish railroads, 236, 341, 409; this suggested and mainly worked by him, 345; instructions to the Com- missioners, 346; their Reports, 347. 874, 883, 410, 412, 414, 415; his share in the composition of these, 352; his account of the moral and economical condition of the Irish, 334; sends relief to the starving peasantry of Donegal, 370; Irish Municipal Boundary Commission, 403; abolition of Irish hulks, 403; suppression of Sunday fairs in the Phoenix Park, 404; his life in Ire- land, 404; Royal Dublin Society, 406; correspondence with Mr Talbot Glascock, 408; birth of a daughter, 409; declining health, 410; resi- dence at Kingstown, 410; tour to the Continent, 414; examination before the Roden Committee, 419, 422; visit to Lord Spencer, 421; proposal that he should enter Par- liament, 422; last illness, 424, 425; death, 426; expressions of public sorrow, 427; letters of condolence to his mother, 427; his burial, 429; statue by Hogan, 430; his character, 16, 137 167, 172, 176, 184, 246, 250, 430-5, 437; his letters to his mother, 21, 26, 27, 41, 76, 126, 128, 135, 142, 143, 151, 182, 278, 406, 409, 410, 417, 424, 425; to his sister, 117, 421; scholarship in memory of him, in the University of Edin- burgh, 430, 465.
Drummond Light, the, 66, 73, 75–77,
81, 83, 115, 171, 438; trial of it in lighthouses, 114-128.
Dublin, police of, in 1835, 267; sup- pression of Sunday fairs in, 404; blowing up of statue of William III., 408; statue of Drummond in, 430. Dublin Evening Post on the authorship of the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 334.
EBRINGTON, Lord, 339, 417, 418; his letter to Mr Drummond's mother, 427. Edinburgh, the birthplace of Mr Drummond, 1; his studies in, 12; residence and occupations in, 43;
his portrait in the University of, 161; scholarship founded there in memory of him, 430, 465. Edinburgh Review on the Drummond Light, 127; on Mr Drummond's evi- dence before the Roden Committee, 256; article on that Committee referred to, 240.
Edward I., statute of, regarding jurors, 457, 458.
Emigration, Irish, 268.
Engineers, Royal, 25, 27; history of the corps, 37.
Episcopalians, number of, in Ireland, 304.
Glengall, Lord, letter of, 313; reply to, 314, 324.
Graham's mercurial pendulum, 84. Grey, Lord, 138; dissolution of his ministry, 178.
Griffith, Sir Richard, 345, 352. Guinness, Mr, 292.
HALL, Captain Basil, his account of the trial of the Drummond Light in a lighthouse, 121-5. Hallam, Henry, on Ireland, 219, 240. Hancock, Dr, 388, 390, 464. Harkness, Lieutenant, 348, 349, 352. Harrison's gridiron pendulum, 84. Harvey, Sir John, 271.
Eric, law of, 192, 199. Examiner newspaper quoted, 184, Hatherton, Lord, 142, 182, 421, 422. Heliostat, Mr Drummond's, 70, 81, 438, 171.
FACTION fights, Irish, 188, 265 sqq., Henry II., conquest of Ireland by, 276, 321.
Fairs, Irish, drinking at, 277; sup- pression of Sunday fairs in the Phoenix Park, 404.
Famines in Ireland, 357, 370, 898. Fitzwilliam, Earl, on the state of Ire- land, 231.
Flax-culture in Ireland, 357. Flour-mills in Ireland, 359. Foyle, Lough, measurement of base-
line at, 81, 83-112, 167, 440. France, trigonometrical survey of, 51, 53; railways in, 380, 395; effect of the first French Revolution on Ire- land, 230.
Freeholders, Irish, 360. French, Mr, 385.
Fresnel's lamp, 67, 73, 439.
GALT, Mr, on railway reform, 396.
Galway, county of, 363.
Gauss, Professor, 70, 171.
Gavelkind, law of, 190, 192.
Henry VIII., Ireland in his reign, 201.
Herschel, Sir John, letter of, concern- ing Mr Drummond, 437, 73, 100, 170, 171; on the Ordnance Survey, 49, 83; on the compensation mea- suring bar, 95, 100, 105, 440; his visit to Lough Foyle, and sketch of the measuring of the base-line there, 106-8; his defence of Mr Drummond on the Borough ques- tion, 148, 150, 153, 154, 157; the Edinburgh Chair of Natural Philo- sophy offered to, 167.
Highlands of Scotland, station-hunt- ing by the Ordnance surveyors in the, 55-61.
Hinde, Mr Hodgson, 383.
Hounslow Heath, base-line on, 51, 110.
Hulks, Irish, abolition of, 403.
INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Irish con- stabulary, 272, 420, 451-3.
Geodesy, methods of, 47. See Ord- Ireland, sketch of the history of, 186;
two "nations" in, 186; the tribes, 187; clans or septs, 187; faction fights, 188, 265, 269, 276, 321; Christianity, 189, 191, 195; law of succession, 190; the Brehon laws, 192-4; Anglo-Norman incursions into, 195; conquest by Henry II., 195; state of, at that time, 187, 198; Danish incursions, 193; bruta- lities and oppression during the four succeeding centuries, 198; the Pale, 198, 201, 202; conflict of laws, 199; statutes of Kilkenny,
201, 209, 216, 239; reign of Henry VIII., 201-205; Church of the Irish Romanised, 203, 209; reign of Elizabeth, 204, 219; conquest of Munster, and frightful sufferings of the people, 205; devastation of Ulster, 206; re-organisation of Ire- land under James I., 208; English laws introduced, 207; forfeitures and evictions, 208; the Reformation, 209; penal laws, 209, 210, 215, 240; reign of Charles I., 210; rebellion of 1641, 211, 240; Crom- well in, 212, 221, 240; depopula- tion by the war, 213; struggle in James II.'s reign, 215; William III., 215; treaty of Limerick, 215, 240; subsequent oppression of the Roman Catholics, 215-221, 228; confisca- tions, 217; universal discontent, 219; increase of population in the 18th and 19th centuries, 220, 232, 237; hatred of England, 221; sub- division of land among tenants, 222, 232, 359 sqq.; absentees, 222, 237; the Whiteboys or Levellers, 224; the Rightboys, 225; the Oak- boys and Steelboys, 226; the Peep- of-day-boys, 226; Defenders, 226, 230; Orangemen, 226, 258 sqq., 277, 296, 408; United Irishmen, 226, 230; rebellion of 1798, 226, 231; increase of wealth, 227; causes of relaxation of penal laws, 228; Parliament of Ireland, 228, 232; demand for free trade, 229; in- fluence of the American War of Independence, 229; of the French Revolution, 230; Union with Great Britain, 232, 241; subsequent con- spiracies and rebellions, 233; secret societies, 234; Insurrection Act, 234, 235; Catholic emancipation, 235, 295-6; Church of, 204, 235, 241, 304, 306, 307; agitations for repeal of the Union, 236; Coercion Acts, 236; state of the country in 1835-9, 237; landlords, 237, 285, 312, 321, 336, 364, 366; Ribandism or Ribbonism, 238, 258 sqq., 288; tithes, 238, 303, 306, 310, 408; O'Connell, 238, 240, 291, 292, 310, 383; Orange Society, 238, 408; retrospect of Irish history, 238; list of authorities, 239; disaffection, 241; Lord Mulgrave's Administration, 183, 244; Lord Morpeth his Chief Secretary, and Mr Drummond Under Secretary, 183; Drummond's share
in that administration, 244 sqq., 426; efforts to suppress Orangeism in 1835, 258, 277, 288, 296; agra- rian outrages, 264, 312, 321; faction fights, 188, 265, 269, 276, 321; sup- pression of crime, 265 sqq., 341; de- crease of crime, 265 sqq., 285, 341; police force, 266 sqq., 449; con- stabulary, 266, 451, 453; admission of Catholics into constabulary, 274, 295; stipendiary magistrates, 278, 277, 280, 453; public prosecutors, 281; juries, 282, 314 sqq., 320, 420, 443, 454, 457; petty sessions, 283, 362; distraint for debt, 284; defeat of Irish bills of the Melbourne Ad- ministration in Parliament, 303; Tithe Commutation Bill, 303, 306, 310; Municipal Reform Bill, 304, 307; Poor-Law Bill, 305, 308, 368; Mr Drummond's letter to the magis- trates of Tipperary, 313-339, 367; its effects on the fortunes of the Whig Government, 339; commis- sion on Irish railways (see Rail- ways); necessity of means of em- ployment of the people, 343; English ignorance of Ireland, 334; moral and economical state of the people, 354; famines, 357, 370, 398; agriculture, 357; manufac- tures, 358; subdivision of the land, 359 899., 232; forty shilling freeholders, 360; litigation be- tween agricultural labourers and employers, 362; potato diet, 237, 364; reclamation of waste lands, 367; emigration, 368; character of the peasantry, 370; their habits of idleness, 371; their moral purity, 190; reasons for Government aid to public works, 373; bill for for- mation of railways (see Railways); financial position of Irish railways in 1866, 389, 398; Municipal Boundary Commission, 402; abolition of hulks, 403; state of the law respect- ing illegal societies, 461; Royal Dublin Society, 406; Trigono- metrical Survey, 64, 73, 79, 247-8, 438.
James I., Ireland under, 207; his in-
dignant disclaimer of tolerance in religious matters, 210, 239. Jardine, Professor, 11, 13; letter from him to Mr Drummond, 30, 35. Johnstone, Dr, 409, 412, 425, 426.
Jones, Major H. D., 348, 402. Juries, alleged intimidation of, in Tip- perary, 314 sqq.; constitution of, 454; challenging of jurors, 282, 320, 420, 457.
KATER, Captain, 67, 70, 95, 104. Kennedy, Colonel Shaw, 272, 420, 453. Ker, Bellenden, 135, 136, 142, 161, 173. Kilkenny, county of, 355; Statutes of, 201, 209, 216, 239. King's County, 355.
Lucas, Mr, 382. Lumper potato, 304. Lyndhurst, Lord, on the Irish poor, 309.
MACCAUSLAND, Mr, 115. M-Culloch, J. R., on railway mis- management, 391. Macfarlane, Mrs, 7; letters of Thomas Drummond to, 24, 25. Macfarlane, William, 7. Maclaren, Charles, 177, 180.
Kingstown, Mr Drummond's resi- M'Neill, Sir John, 348. dence in, 410.
LAND, subdivision of, in Ireland, 232, 350 sqq.
Landlord and tenant in Ireland, 237, 285, 312, 321, 336, 360, 364; duties of landlords, 322, 325, 366. Lansdowne, Marquis of, 345, 385. Larcom, General Sir T. A., his Memoir of Mr Drummond quoted, 19, 28, 34, 35, 39, 41, 42, 66, 75, 78, 80, 95, 102, 127, 152, 160, 172, 175, 250, 266, 403, 404, 405, 415, 425, 426, 429; information given to the author by, 44; his services on the Ord- nance Survey, 79; map of Ireland, &c., prepared by, 349; letter of Professor Barlow to, 352; Dow Under Secretary in Ireland, 253. Laws, old Irish, 192, 199, 207; Sta- tutes of Kilkenny, 201, 209, 216, 239; law of England introduced into Ireland, 207; Irish penal laws, 209, 210, 215–221, 228, 240. Lawyers, qualifications necessary for the success of, 45.
Leinster, 205, 357, 364; Duke of, 381.
Leland's History of Ireland, 239. Leslie, Professor, 12, 18, 22, 166. Levellers or Whiteboys, 224. Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, on "Irish Disturbances," &c., 240.
Lighthouses, trial of the Drummond Light for the illumination of, 114- 127, 439, 440.
Lime-light, 66, 442. See Drummond Light.
Limerick, county of, 355; treaty of. 215, 240.
Littleton, Mr E. J., (afterwards Lord Hatherton,) 142, 421, 422; his letter to Mr Drummond's mother, 182. Longford, county of, 355. Lorimer, Professor, his scheme of Par- liamentary representation, 153.
Madden, Dr, quoted, 244, 253, 255, 296, 329, 343, 423. Magistrates, stipendiary, in Ireland, 273, 277, 280, 453. Marsh, Sir Henry, 425. Martin, R. M., his work on Ireland, 240.
Martineau, Miss, 135; her reminis-
cences of Mr Drummond, 173, 175, 430; her estimate of his character and services, 255, 327, 433; quoted on Irish affairs, 283, 312, 326. Mayo, county of, 363. Measuring-rods used in the Ordnance
Survey, 50, 52, 81, 83, 86, 95, 440. Melbourne, Lord, 178, 182; his in- structions to the Boundary Com- mission, 140, 144; defeat of the Irish measures of his administra- tion in Parliament, 303. Meridian, direction of the, 53. Mica, Mr Drummond's experiments with, 97, 98, 101. Miller, Colonel, 272.
Mitchell, Joseph, on railways, 392. Mitscherlich, his discovery of a pro- perty of crystals, 101, 441. Monaghan, county of, 355, 357. Moore, Thomas, letter from, to Mr Drummond, 336.
Morpeth, Lord, 245, 250, 292, 303, 382, 383, 416.
Mudge, Colonel, 20, 21, 25, 30, 33, 35, 53, 54, 110.
Mulgrave, Lord, (afterwards Lord Nor- manby,) becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 183; his administration there, 244, 454; personal charac- ter, 244; his alleged claim to the authorship of the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 329, 330, 334, 385, 338; becomes Minister for the Colonies, 339; let- ter from him to Mr Drummond's mother, 412; his liberation of Irish prisoners, 421.
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