Thom's Irish Who's Who/Purcell, Sir John

PURCELL, Sir John, K.C.B., Civ. (1900), C.B., civ. (1888); entered the Inland Revenue Department, 1856; Principal Clerk in the Secretariat, 1876-83; Controller of Stamps and Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, 1883-1900; formerly Major London Irish Rifle Vols., of which corps he was one of the six promoters; Chairman of the National Bank, and a Director of the Norwich Union Life and Fire Office. Industrial and General Trust and Golden Horse Shoe Estates Co., Ltd. Son of late Dr. Purcell, of Carrick-on-Suir, sometime a Commissioner of Irish Poor Laws; m. 1868, Alice Fanny, youngest dau. of late Capt. Leighton Kennett, and has issue two sons and four daus. Res.: Glebe Lodge, Blackheath, Kent. Club: Constitutional, S.W.