Thom's Irish Who's Who/Taaffe, George Joseph

TAAFFE, George Joseph, D.L., J.P. Co. Louth (High Sheriff, 1907); J.P. Co. Meath; Capt. 3rd Batt. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt; late Capt. 4th Batt. R. Lancaster Regt. Educ.: Stonyhurst College: took an active part in the formation of the Irish Land Conference Committee, and also of the Committee for the Settlement of the Irish question along the lines of Devolution; Smarmore Castle has been in possession of the family since the 10th century. Recns.: hunting, shooting, golf, tennis; only son of late Stephen Taaffe, J.P., of Glenkeiran, Co. Meath, and grandson of George Taaffe, of Smarmore Castle, Ardee, Co. Louth; b. 1866; m. 1895, Alice, younger dau. of late Capt. B. T. Griffith Boscawen, D.L., J.P., of Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Smarmore Castle, Ardee, Co. Louth.