Belfast News-Letter/1886/Death of Sir John Lentaigne

Death of Sir John Lentaigne

Dublin, Friday.—The Right Hon. Sir John Lentaigne, C.B., died this afternoon. The late Sir John Lentaigne was born in 1803, and consequently had reached the advanced age of eighty-two years. He graduated in Trinity College, although a staunch adherent of the Roman Catholic Church. He filled the position for several years of Inspector-General of Prisons in Ireland, and was subsequently, owing to his great experience of these establishments, elected an honorary member of the General Prisons' Board. He also held the position of Inspector of Reformatories and Industry Schools. He was appointed a Commissioner of National Education in 1861, and during the present year he was selected by her Majesty as one of her Privy Councillors in Ireland. He filled the offices of President of tho Statistical Society and President of the Royal Zoological Society, in the affairs of which he took a lively interest. He was a magistrate of the Counties of Dublin and Monagban, and of the latter was a deputy lieutenant. He was High Sheriff for the County Monaghan in 1844 and contested the representation of the County Dublin in 1852. He married in 1841 the daughter of Mr. Francis Mangan, J.P., of Emoe, County Westmeath, and leaves several children, one of whom—Mr. J. W. Lentaigne, J.P.—is Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper. The news of Sir John's death will be received with widespread regret.