Thom's Irish Who's Who/O'Callaghan-Westropp, Col. George

O'CALLAGHAN-WESTROPP, Col. George; Col. Reserve of Officers: J.P. Co. Clare (High Sheriff, 1919). Educ.: Cheltenham College: R.M.C., Sandhurst. Lieut. 1st Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, 1882; Capt., 1888; retired, 1889; Capt. Clare Artillery, 1899, and commanded from 1898 until disbanded in 1909. Member of Royal Commission on the Militia and Volunteers, 1903-4; Ammunition Column Committee, 1906; second Esher Committee (Territorial Forces), 1906: A.D.C. to King Edward VII., 1905. Pubns.: various on Military, Political, and Irish Land Questions. Recns.: shooting, fishing, cricket; only son of Col. John O'Callaghan, D.L., J.P., of Maryfort, Co. Clare, and Mary Johnson, eldest dau. of John Westropp, of Attyflin Park, Co. Limerick; in 1885 by Royal Licence assumed the name and arms of Westropp in addition to those of O'Callaghan, in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, Capt. Ralph Westropp, of Coolreagh, Co. Clare, to whose estates he had succeeded in 1883; b. 1864; in 1895, Henrietta Cecilia Rose, dau. of Capt. G. A. Godbold, 27th Inniskilling Fusiliers, and has issue one son and three daus. Res.: Lismehane, O'Callaghan's Mills, Co. Clare. Clubs: Army and Navy, London; Kildare Street, Dublin; Clare, Ennis.