Thom's Irish Who's Who/Jeffries, Major William Francis

JEFFRIES, Major William Francis, D.S.O. (1918), B.A. (Cantab.). Educ. at Downside and Trinity College, Cambridge; late Major Royal Dublin Fus. (S.R.); served in European War, 1914-18; Sec. to British Legation to Vatican, 1919; only son of late W. Carey Jeffries, M.D., Coolcarron, Co. Cork, and Maud, dau. of R. Kennedy of Ballinamultina, Co. Waterford; b. 1891; m. 1920, Leila, elder dau. of Eras. C. Downing, of Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry, and has issue one son. Author of Two Undergraduates in the East. Stephen's Green Club, Dublin.