\"American Poet\" Grace Denio Litchfield Signed Monogram Page For Sale

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\"American Poet\" Grace Denio Litchfield Signed Monogram Page:
$349.99

Up for sale "American Poet" Grace Denio Litchfield Hand Signed Monogram Page Dated 1904. 

composer. Born William Chichester, he changed his surname to O'Neill in

1855. The eldest son of Reverend Edward Chichester, he was a member of the

prominent Irish Chichester family headed by the Marquess of Donegall. He

was the great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, grandson of Edward

Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, and younger brother of Arthur

Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall. O'Neill was educated at Foyle College, Derry, Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin,

and was ordained in 1837. He was a prominent church organist and

composer of church music, glees and songs. When the Belfast

Hospital for Sick Children was opened in 1878, Reverend O'Neill

was appointed as the first president of the Medical Board. A marble dedication

was installed in the hospitals surgical ward honouring him. This was a role he

fulfilled with keen interest up until his death, at which time his son Robert

Torrens took over the responsibility.

In 1855 he succeeded to the substantial O'Neill estates on the death of

his relative John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount

O'Neill (on whose death the viscountcy became extinct) and

assumed by Royal licence the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Chichester the same

year. In 1868 the O'Neill title was revived when he was raised to the peerage

as Baron O'Neill, of Shane's Castle in the County Antrim.

Lord O'Neill married, firstly, Henrietta, daughter of Robert Torrens, judge of

the Court of Common Pleas

(Ireland), and his wife Anne in 1839. After her death in 1857 he

married, secondly, Elizabeth Grace, daughter of the Venerable in 1858; she was Henrietta's first cousin. His third

son from his first marriage, Robert Torrens O'Neill, represented Antrim Mid in

Parliament for many years. He died in April 1883, aged 70, and was succeeded in

the barony by his eldest son from his first marriage, Edward. Two of

Lord O'Neill's descendants gained particular distinction. His grandson Robert William Hugh O'Neill was Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of

Commons and created Baron Rathcavan in 1953 while his Minister of Northern

Ireland and given a life peerage as Baron O'Neill of the Maine

in 1970. Elizabeth Grace, Lady O'Neill, died in 1905.

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