"The Correspondence of Edmund Burke" Volume VII Edited by P.J. Marshall and John A. Woods, published by Cambridge University Press 1968
P180 24th August 1792
"I am afraid there will be some bungling about the Business of the
Keoghs1 - for, when I came to the direction of the Letter;
Laurence started a doubt to me, whether Clapton was the name of the
Master or the place, as there is a little Village just beyond Hackney
called Clapton and we thought it not so probable that the names should
so exactly coincide2. Nagle, however, is this day gone off
with a letter from me to be directed according as he shall find by his
Enquiries at Hackney and its vicinage at what school the young Keoghs
are to be found. So I hope all will be right. But they cannot be very
long here as I am taking your Mother to Bath. ..."
P196 4th September 1792
"Dr Laurence left us yesterday. He is charmed, as we all are, with the
Young Keoghs. I assure you I have not seen, to my recollection, three
finer Boys. They are manly, steady, rational, of extraordinary good
parts, and of a politeness of behaviour which I have not seen at their
Age, but without all affectation and formality - and we have observed
many signs in them of good nature and sensibility. They are gone off
this morning under the Care of Dr Laurence. Observe this is the third if
not the fourth Letter I have directed to you to Dublin. Two under cover
to Kiernan, one under cover to Mrs Keogh3.
Footnotes on p180 (1792)
1 'The 'Business' was to invite three sons of
John
Keogh - who were at school in England - to stay at Beaconsfield. The
visit was successfully arranged (see below p196). Three sons of Keogh
can be identified:
John,
Micheal and (almost certainly)
George Drew
Keogh (Dublin deeds office 645/310/448525; 730/496/498432).
2 The master of the school attended by the Keoghs has
not been identified.
[Possibly
Dr Newcome's School. Other buildings in Lower Clapton Road
included Wood's almshouses east of where the road widened by a pond, the
Wood family's 16th- or 17th-century house, later the Powells' Clapton
House, to the north, and the school which became Newcome's to the south.]
3 Mary (d. c.1823), daughter of
George Drew. .... Wolfe Tone noted in his diary on 5 September: 'Edmund
Burke has Gog's [Keogh's] boys now on a visit to Beaconsfield, and
writes him a letter in their praise' (Wolf Tone Life, I, 180)