Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Metge
Metge. — Pierre Metgé, a Huguenot refugee of the Revocation period, settled at Athlumney in the county of Meath. His son, Peter, was M.P., in 1776, for Ardce, and in 1783 for Boyle in the Irish House of Commons. A third Peter, his son, was a barrister-at-law, and was elevated to the bench as an additional Baron of Exchequer in Dublin in 1784; he died without surviving issue in 1801, and the next head of the family was his brother John, M.P. for Tallagh in 1798, and Auditor-General of the Irish Treasury. His eldest son succeeded him as chief of the Metge family, namely, Peter Ponsonby Metge, Esq., of Athlumney; he died 10th November 1873, the representatives of his deceased brother, John Charles Metge of Sion, succeeding him in the representation of the family, namely —
(1). Francis Burton Metge, of Ladywell, County Westmeath.
(2). Peter Ponsonby Metge, of Rathlca, County Tipperary.
(3). Robert Henry Metge, of Athlumney, LL.B., barrister-at-law.