Thom's Irish Who's Who/Battersby, Thos. Stephenson Francis

BATTERSBY, Thos. Stephenson Francis, M.A. (T.C.D.), K.C.; Senior Crown Prosecutor Waterford City and County and Queen's County; J.P., Cos. Dublin and Meath. Educ.: Rathmines School; Marlborough College; Dublin University. Various honours and prizes in Trinity College, Dublin, in History, English Literature, and Irish; graduated with Senior Moderatorship and gold medal in History, Political Economy, and Law; University Philosophical Society's medal in Composition; College Historical Society's medal in History. President of the University Philosophical Society, 1878-79; various cups in University Rowing Club; in the University 1st football XV.; Road Club medal 100 miles in 12 hours (solid tyre); cups for long dive, Marlborough, Wicklow, and Skerries; Irish record long-distance swim (Bray Head to Dalkey Island), 51 miles in 121 minutes, July 22nd, 1884; won cruisers races. Skerries Regattas, 1898 and 1899. Some time Chairman, Dublin Musical Society; contested (U.) S. Fermanagh, 1900-1910; Vice-President, City of Dublin Unionist Association and Member of Council of S. Co. Dublin Unionist Association; Executive Committee Feis Ceoil. Pubns.: Compensation to Landlords the corollary to the Land Act; The Fiscal Question in the United States; Grand Jury Laws of Ireland; Irish Election Law; Municipal Elections; The Pocket Pleader. Recns.: yachting, summing, cycling, golf, tennis, croquet; b. 17th April, 1855; son of Fras. Battersby, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., and Elizabeth Crooke; in. 18S3, Jeanie, dau. of Samuel Gerrard Solicitor; one son two daus. Res.: 45 Upper Mount Street, Dublin; Shenick Lodge, Skerries, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Royal Ulster Yacht, Skerries Golf.