Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dease, Major Gerald

DEASE, Major Gerald, late R. Fus.; Commissioner of National Education in Ireland. Educ.: Oscott; entered the Army, 1874; sometime A.D.C. to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Major, 1891; retired 1894; was J.P. and D.L. (resigned 1920), for Cos. Westmeath and Cavan, and High Sheriff of Co. Cavan for 1899 and of Co. Westmeath for 1909; b. 1854; son of James Arthur Dease, D.L., of Turbotston, Coole, and Charlotte, dau. of Edmund William Jerningham; m. 1896, Florence, dau. of George Marley, of Gaunless House, Co. Durham (no children). Recns.: polo, hunting, painting, etc. Res.: Turbotston. Coole, Co. Westmeath. Clubs: Kildare Street, Dublin: Sackville Street, Dublin; Naval and Military, London.