Thom's Irish Who's Who/Sweetman, Lieut.-Col. Michael James

SWEETMAN, Lieut.-Col. Michael James, O.B.E. (1919); Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class; B.A. (London; J.P., Co. Wexford. Educ.: at Downside; joined East Yorks. Regt., 1887; Captain, 1896: A.D.C to his Uncle Gen. Sir W. Butler, at Dover and Capetown, 1896-9; served in S. African War. 1899-1901 (desps. and brevet of Major, 1900); held Militia Adjutancy at Wexford, 1901-4: Lieut.-Col., 1914; served in European War, 1914-18. Recns.: fishing and farming: son of late Walter Sweetman. of Clohamon, Ferns, Co. Wexford, and Mary, dau. of Richard Butler, of Suirvale, Co. Tipperary; b, 1865; m. 1907, Adelaide Mary, dau. of the Rev. the Hon. Charles Feilding. Res.: Clohamon House, Ferns, Co. Wexford. Army and Navy Club, London.