The Bolton Family of Ballinastraw, Gorey, Co. Wexford, and of Dublin.
Edward Parker Bolton married Helen Seyton/Seaton Farquharson, who was the daughter of Mary Anne Creighton and Alexander Farquharson, in St.Thomas’s, North Dublin on 11th August 1868. Mary Anne Creighton was the sister of our great-great-grandmother, Geraldine O'Moore Creighton who married Richard Williams.
Edward Parker Bolton was the son of Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe of Dublin. The children of Edward and Helen Seaton Farquharson were:
a) Albert Edward Bolton, born 10th May 1869 - the family were living at 12 Bloomfield Avenue, Portobello, and Edward Parker Bolton was working as a commercial traveller.
b) Alexandrina Mary Elizabeth Bolton, born 10th April 1871 in South Dublin, at 12 Bloomfield Avenue.
c) Reginald Arthur Bolton, born 25th November 1872.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/06/the-children-of-alexander-farquharson.html
Following the birth of Reginald Arthur Bolton in 1872, I could find no further trace of Edward Parker Bolton. The list of electors for the city of Dublin election on July 15th 1865, however, had noted Edward P. Bolton as living in the family home at 93 Upper Leeson Street, along with his father, Edward Bolton, and his brother, John Loftus Bolton.
The Bolton family seat was at Island House, or Kilmuckridge, 10 miles from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford - they had originated in Beaumaris, Wales. Island House was also known as Cold Harbour or Ballinastraw. The first of the Bolton family to come to Ireland was Humphrey Bolton, who had been born in Beaumaris in 1648 and who entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1666.
Edward Bolton and Anne Richards, grandparents of Edward Parker Bolton:
The grandfather of Edward Parker Bolton, who married Helen Seyton Farquharson, was Edward Bolton, who had been born on 16th August 1801 to an older Edward Bolton and to his wife, Anne Richards, both of Wexford. The 13 children of Edward Bolton and Anne Richards were:
a) Anne Bolton, born 12th November 1794. She died.
b) Richard Bolton, born 23rd January 1795. A solicitor in Dublin, Richard married, firstly, one of the Richards family on 27th August 1818, and, secondly, her cousin, Miss Richards of Ardamine. Richard Bolton was made Master Extraordinary in Chancery for Ireland.
c) Henry Bolton, 25th April 1798 - 1890. A widower, he married, on 18th March 1862, the widowed Olivia Ann Turner Hamilton, the daughter of the solicitor Francis William Hamilton of 35 York Street. Henry was noted as an esquire of Ballinastraw, Wexford.
d) Jemima Bolton, 24th August 1798 - February 1823.
e) Another Anne Bolton, born 16th July 1800. She also died.
f) Edward Bolton, born 16th August 1801. The father of Edward Parker Bolton.
g) Elizabeth Bolton, born 24th February 1803. She died.
h) John Bolton, born 10th July 1804. He moved to Dublin. His wife was another member of the Richards family, Mary Anne Richards. They lived at 1 Bolton Terrace, Clarinda Park. He died at Glennah, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.
i) William Bolton, born 28th February 1806. He lived at Ballinastraw, Wexford, and had a second address at Fitzwilliam Lodge, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He married Anna Matilda Barklie of Drummadaragh, Co. Antrim. William founded the firm of W. Bolton & Co. in 1853. His son, also William Bolton, joined the business later. In 1864, an H.E. Bolton was living at Fitzwilliam Lodge, Blackrock.
j) Francis Bolton, born 3rd June 1807.
k) Anne Bolton, born 22nd June 1808.
l) Solomon Bolton, born 16th March 1812.
m) Elizabeth Bolton, born 18th May 1813.
Edward Bolton, father of Edward Parker Bolton:
Edward Bolton Senior had been born in Wexford on 16th August 1801 to the earlier Edward Bolton and to Anne Richards.
Along with his brothers, John and William Bolton, he was apprenticed to the Dublin whiskey merchants Messrs. Kinahan, and would settle eventually at 93 Upper Leeson Street. He married a Mary Navoe (this is an odd name - I wonder is this a mis-spelling of some sort?), by whom he had children.
Edward married, secondly, on 9th September 1853, Jane Burton, the daughter of Wingfield Burton of Wingfield, Wicklow.
Children of Edward Bolton Senior and Mary Navoe:
1) Edward Parker Bolton who married Helen Seyton Farquharson; I can find no record of his birth, but he was living in the family home in 1865, four years before his marriage to Helen. A nephew of his was named as Cecil Parker Glorney, thus repeating the Parker name in the next generation.
2) Henry Edward Bolton was born circa 1839 to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe. He worked for the Civil Service and married twice. The first marriage took place on 31st March 1864 in Clonsilla, Co. Dublin. His bride was Eleanor Glorney, the daughter of Benjamin Glorney. (Eleanor's brother, George, married Henry's sister, Susan Mary Bolton.)
Henry Edward Bolton died on 15th May 1917 at Sylvan House, Donnybrook, and probate was granted to William Bolton and Robert Arthur Bolton.
Some of the children of Henry Edward Bolton and Eleanor Glorney were all baptised as adults in Sandford Parish, while the family were living at Sylvan House, Belmont Avenue, Donnybrook:
a) Alfred Henry Bolton, born 13th March 1865 in Castleknock, Dublin.
b) Susanna Bolton, born 4th December 1866
c) Henry Edward Bolton Junior, born 23 March 1868, baptised 1890.
d) John Nunn Bolton, born 25th July 1869 in Dundrum and Glencullen, baptised 1890. He died in Warwick, Warwickshire, in January 1909. A portrait painter, in 1901 he was living in Warwickshire with his young wife, the art teacher Florence Francis.
From 'A Dictionary of Irish Artists', 1913: 'Was born in Dublin on 25th July, 1869, the son of Henry E. Bolton, himself a clever amateur landscape painter. He became a student in the Metropolitan School of Art and in the Royal Hibernian Academy, and won the Taylor Scholarship with his picture of "Old Leinster Market, Dublin," now in the possession of his father. He left Dublin and resided in Warwick for some years, where his landscape and marine subjects, both in oil and water-colour, were much thought of. He also painted portraits and miniatures, and was a frequent exhibitor in Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester. He took an active part with Louis N. Parker in the Warwick Pageant as a designer and organizer; and for a short time before his death was a master in the Leamington School of Art. A clever and promising artist, he was advancing in his art when he died in Warwick on 11th February, 1909. A large picture, "The Lledr Valley," and several water-colours, including a charming drawing of his wife and child, belong to his father, Mr. H. E. Bolton, Sylvan House, Donnybrook, and others are in possession of Mr. Bolton of Fitzwilliam, Blackrock.'
John Nunn Bolton and Florence Francis had four children - John Robert Glorney Bolton, Eileen Mary Bolton, Dorothy Joyce Bolton and Frederick Rothwell Bolton. This family were highly accomplished in their respective fields. John Robert Glorney Bolton, born 6th April 1901, was a journalist and writer who married the novelist Sybil Margaret Bolton. He worked for The Yorkshire Post 1923 - 1927, The Times of Inda 1927 - 1930, and wrote 'The Tragedy of Gandhi', having sailed with him from India to London in 1930. Rev.Frederick Rothwell Bolton, born 29th November 1908, moved to Ireland, becoming the Dean of Leighlin, Tipperary. Dorothy Joyce Bolton, born 15th November 1903, died 5th March 1981 in Santa Clara, California. Originally a nursery school teacher, she became an expert on child development, working at Mills College, California. Her sister, Eileen Mary Bolton, was an acommplished botanist, artist and stained glass artist.
e) Herbert Hussey Bolton, born 1871, baptised 1890, and died in Dublin in 1953. In 1914, aged 40, he joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. At the time he worked in an insurance office and had previously served with the City of Dublin Cadets. In 1911 he was living with his wife, Jane, in Sandymount and gave his age as 39.
f) Robert Arthur Bolton, born 1875, baptised 1890.
Henry Edward Bolton married, secondly, Lizzie Pauline Crothers, the daughter of Thomas Crothers of Prince William Cottage, Beggars Bush, Dublin, on 9th September 1896. One of the witnesses to the wedding was William Beckett, who was the grandfather of the playwright Samuel Beckett. William Beckett had married Fannie Crothers, also the daughter of Thomas Crothers, on 31st March 1869.
3) John Loftus Bolton was born 18th May 1843 in the parish of St. Marks , Dublin, to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe of 64 Great Brunswick Street, modern name Pearse Street. Edward Bolton was a clerk at the time of his son's birth. John Loftus later married Susan Henrietta Blackwell, the daughter of John Blackwell. He died in 1887 in Massachusetts.
4) William Bolton was born at Upper Leeson Street to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe (and the family must just have moved to this address) on 14th February 1845.
5) Susan Mary Bolton was born on 18th October 1846 at Summer Villa, Upper Leeson Street to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe. She would marry, on 14th October 1874, George Glorney, a widowed miller, in St. Peter's Church. The Bolton family address was 93 Upper Leeson Street. George Glorney was the son of the Quaker merchant, Benjamin Glorney.
(Before his marriage to Susan Mary Bolton, George Glorney, merchant and son of Benjamin Glorney, had been married to Emilie Terry of Sunbury-on-Thames, but she had died young in 1869 of congestion of the brain - at the time of her death, the young couple were living at Park Place, Conyngham Road, Chapelizod. Before her death, on 7th August 1869, Emilie gave birth to a daughter, Florence Elizabeth Glorney at Castleknock.)
The children of George Glorney and Susan Mary Bolton were:
a) Frances Glorney, born 21st March 1875 in Blackrock, Dublin.
b) Ethel Mary Glorney, born on 18th February 1876 at Idrone Terrace, Blackrock. She worked as a governess in England, before emigrating to New York. The Simplex Rubber Company of America paid her passage over in 1916 - her next-of-kin at home was named as her mother, Susan M. Glorney of Ballsbridge. By 1937, Ethel Mary Glorney was living in Manhasset, Long Island, and had become, somehow, extremely wealthy. The Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship in the Medical Sciences was established by Miss Glorney in 1961 in honor of her personal physician,the cardiologist Milton J. Raisbeck. Dr. Raisbeck wrote, "Miss Ethel Glorney was approaching 60 when I first saw her and she died under my care in her eighties some twenty years ago. She originally came from Ireland and had an elder brother then living in Dublin, who has since died. Another brother, younger than Ethel, lived in this country (with Ethel at times) and he was a patient of mine. When he died, she named the Foundation after him: The Corlette Glorney Foundation, Inc. Corlette was an Irish squire who lived rather high, - his usual beverage was champagne. During her last ten years or so, Ethel Glorney had an apartment in the Hotel Carlyle (Madison at 76th) and I saw her at least once a week. After each visit I invariably found a little table all set with a split of iced champagne and generous supply of caviar. I was conducting a consultation practice in cardiology, but I did make (selected) house calls! I think that little routine was in memory of Corlette. In her final years, when I refused to take money over the counter which she tried to press upon me, I suggested that I meet with her and her lawyer and work something out: the Foundation was the result. At the conference we decided to make up a small Board of Directors, to consist of her lawyer, my lawyer, and the two men who had been her chief financial advisers.... "
Ethel also established a number of educational scholarships in memory of her late younger brother, Ernest Edward Glorney.
Her obituary from The New York Times: 'Glorney - Ethel Mary, on February 11 1957, devoted sister of Mrs. Emily Constance Clifford, Cecil Parker Glorney, and the late Corlette Glorney. Service at Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th St.'
c) George Corlette Glorney, born 9th October 1878 in Rathmines, Dublin. A businessman, Colette Glorney married Helene Guggenheim, the daughter of Isaac Guggenheim and Carrie Sonneborn of New York. The couple divorced in Florida in 1943. Helene married, as her third husband, on September 14th 1944 at Newtown Abbot, Lieutenant-Commander Sir Melville Ward. Helene's father, Isaac Guggenheim, was prominent in the US mining and smelting industry; he died in Southampton in 1922 on his way to meet up with a friend, Henry V. Marsh of Warwick Castle. Corlette and Helene accompanied his body back home to New York aboard the Lusitania.
Corlette and Helene Glorney were wealthy and highly active in the horse racing world and in New York and English society. I haven't ascertained how the Glorney siblings got their money, but possibly they were involved in mining alongside the Guggenheim family.
Corlette and Helene Glorney had a daughter, Carol Glorney.
d) Emilie Constance Glorney, born 17th May 1880 in Killiney, Dublin. She married a man by the name of Clifford.
e) Cecil Parker Glorney, born in 1881. From The Irish Times: 'He began his business career at the age of 17, selling timber, and in 1923 founded the successful company C.P. Glorney Ltd., Building Providers. Among other civic activities, he was for many years chairman and later president of the Dublin Shelter for Men, and in 1957 he founded the Glorney Charitable Foundation, an organisation for the alleviation of poverty. He died in Nice on 31st December 1973... he was President of Rathmines C.C. (ie: Chess Club) from 1939 to 1957, and club champion in 1942, 1944 and 1945.'
In 1948 Cecil Parker Glorney, competitive chess player and President of Rathmines Chess Club, created the Glorney Cup.
f) Ernest Edward Glorney, born circa 1887 at 2 Belgrave Park, Rathmines. At the outset of the First World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps and died on the 25th of November 1916. He had graduated from Columbia College New York and the Royal School of Mines South Kensington as a mining engineer. He worked abroad in North and South America and in Nigeria. Prior to joining up, he was working as the manager of the Renang Mining Company in Siam. His sister, Ethel, founded a number of educational scholarships in his name. He is buried in Deangrange Cemetery, South Dublin.
Notes on the Dublin Glorney family: George and Eleanor Glorney, who married members of the Bolton family, were the children of the Quaker miller, Benjamin Glorney. In 1787, an earlier Benjamin Glorney was noted as running a tabbynet and poplin shop in Meath Street, Dublin. He made a will in 1817. A younger Benjamin Glorney, most likely the son of the older man, married Susannah Corlet or Corlette in Dublin in 1826 - these were the parents of George and Eleanor. Benjamin ran Mardyke Mills in Chapelizod, Dublin, and he was declared bankrupt, along with a Samuel Glorney, on 13th May 1870. They were noted as 'starch and blue manufacturers'. An earlier publication noted them as manufacturers of mustard, mustard oil and cake, blues, ginger and starch.
Edward Parker Bolton married Helen Seyton/Seaton Farquharson, who was the daughter of Mary Anne Creighton and Alexander Farquharson, in St.Thomas’s, North Dublin on 11th August 1868. Mary Anne Creighton was the sister of our great-great-grandmother, Geraldine O'Moore Creighton who married Richard Williams.
Edward Parker Bolton was the son of Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe of Dublin. The children of Edward and Helen Seaton Farquharson were:
a) Albert Edward Bolton, born 10th May 1869 - the family were living at 12 Bloomfield Avenue, Portobello, and Edward Parker Bolton was working as a commercial traveller.
b) Alexandrina Mary Elizabeth Bolton, born 10th April 1871 in South Dublin, at 12 Bloomfield Avenue.
c) Reginald Arthur Bolton, born 25th November 1872.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2013/06/the-children-of-alexander-farquharson.html
Following the birth of Reginald Arthur Bolton in 1872, I could find no further trace of Edward Parker Bolton. The list of electors for the city of Dublin election on July 15th 1865, however, had noted Edward P. Bolton as living in the family home at 93 Upper Leeson Street, along with his father, Edward Bolton, and his brother, John Loftus Bolton.
The Bolton family seat was at Island House, or Kilmuckridge, 10 miles from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford - they had originated in Beaumaris, Wales. Island House was also known as Cold Harbour or Ballinastraw. The first of the Bolton family to come to Ireland was Humphrey Bolton, who had been born in Beaumaris in 1648 and who entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1666.
Edward Bolton and Anne Richards, grandparents of Edward Parker Bolton:
The grandfather of Edward Parker Bolton, who married Helen Seyton Farquharson, was Edward Bolton, who had been born on 16th August 1801 to an older Edward Bolton and to his wife, Anne Richards, both of Wexford. The 13 children of Edward Bolton and Anne Richards were:
a) Anne Bolton, born 12th November 1794. She died.
b) Richard Bolton, born 23rd January 1795. A solicitor in Dublin, Richard married, firstly, one of the Richards family on 27th August 1818, and, secondly, her cousin, Miss Richards of Ardamine. Richard Bolton was made Master Extraordinary in Chancery for Ireland.
c) Henry Bolton, 25th April 1798 - 1890. A widower, he married, on 18th March 1862, the widowed Olivia Ann Turner Hamilton, the daughter of the solicitor Francis William Hamilton of 35 York Street. Henry was noted as an esquire of Ballinastraw, Wexford.
d) Jemima Bolton, 24th August 1798 - February 1823.
e) Another Anne Bolton, born 16th July 1800. She also died.
f) Edward Bolton, born 16th August 1801. The father of Edward Parker Bolton.
g) Elizabeth Bolton, born 24th February 1803. She died.
h) John Bolton, born 10th July 1804. He moved to Dublin. His wife was another member of the Richards family, Mary Anne Richards. They lived at 1 Bolton Terrace, Clarinda Park. He died at Glennah, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.
i) William Bolton, born 28th February 1806. He lived at Ballinastraw, Wexford, and had a second address at Fitzwilliam Lodge, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He married Anna Matilda Barklie of Drummadaragh, Co. Antrim. William founded the firm of W. Bolton & Co. in 1853. His son, also William Bolton, joined the business later. In 1864, an H.E. Bolton was living at Fitzwilliam Lodge, Blackrock.
j) Francis Bolton, born 3rd June 1807.
k) Anne Bolton, born 22nd June 1808.
l) Solomon Bolton, born 16th March 1812.
m) Elizabeth Bolton, born 18th May 1813.
Edward Bolton, father of Edward Parker Bolton:
Edward Bolton Senior had been born in Wexford on 16th August 1801 to the earlier Edward Bolton and to Anne Richards.
Along with his brothers, John and William Bolton, he was apprenticed to the Dublin whiskey merchants Messrs. Kinahan, and would settle eventually at 93 Upper Leeson Street. He married a Mary Navoe (this is an odd name - I wonder is this a mis-spelling of some sort?), by whom he had children.
Edward married, secondly, on 9th September 1853, Jane Burton, the daughter of Wingfield Burton of Wingfield, Wicklow.
Children of Edward Bolton Senior and Mary Navoe:
1) Edward Parker Bolton who married Helen Seyton Farquharson; I can find no record of his birth, but he was living in the family home in 1865, four years before his marriage to Helen. A nephew of his was named as Cecil Parker Glorney, thus repeating the Parker name in the next generation.
2) Henry Edward Bolton was born circa 1839 to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe. He worked for the Civil Service and married twice. The first marriage took place on 31st March 1864 in Clonsilla, Co. Dublin. His bride was Eleanor Glorney, the daughter of Benjamin Glorney. (Eleanor's brother, George, married Henry's sister, Susan Mary Bolton.)
Henry Edward Bolton died on 15th May 1917 at Sylvan House, Donnybrook, and probate was granted to William Bolton and Robert Arthur Bolton.
Some of the children of Henry Edward Bolton and Eleanor Glorney were all baptised as adults in Sandford Parish, while the family were living at Sylvan House, Belmont Avenue, Donnybrook:
a) Alfred Henry Bolton, born 13th March 1865 in Castleknock, Dublin.
b) Susanna Bolton, born 4th December 1866
c) Henry Edward Bolton Junior, born 23 March 1868, baptised 1890.
d) John Nunn Bolton, born 25th July 1869 in Dundrum and Glencullen, baptised 1890. He died in Warwick, Warwickshire, in January 1909. A portrait painter, in 1901 he was living in Warwickshire with his young wife, the art teacher Florence Francis.
From 'A Dictionary of Irish Artists', 1913: 'Was born in Dublin on 25th July, 1869, the son of Henry E. Bolton, himself a clever amateur landscape painter. He became a student in the Metropolitan School of Art and in the Royal Hibernian Academy, and won the Taylor Scholarship with his picture of "Old Leinster Market, Dublin," now in the possession of his father. He left Dublin and resided in Warwick for some years, where his landscape and marine subjects, both in oil and water-colour, were much thought of. He also painted portraits and miniatures, and was a frequent exhibitor in Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester. He took an active part with Louis N. Parker in the Warwick Pageant as a designer and organizer; and for a short time before his death was a master in the Leamington School of Art. A clever and promising artist, he was advancing in his art when he died in Warwick on 11th February, 1909. A large picture, "The Lledr Valley," and several water-colours, including a charming drawing of his wife and child, belong to his father, Mr. H. E. Bolton, Sylvan House, Donnybrook, and others are in possession of Mr. Bolton of Fitzwilliam, Blackrock.'
John Nunn Bolton and Florence Francis had four children - John Robert Glorney Bolton, Eileen Mary Bolton, Dorothy Joyce Bolton and Frederick Rothwell Bolton. This family were highly accomplished in their respective fields. John Robert Glorney Bolton, born 6th April 1901, was a journalist and writer who married the novelist Sybil Margaret Bolton. He worked for The Yorkshire Post 1923 - 1927, The Times of Inda 1927 - 1930, and wrote 'The Tragedy of Gandhi', having sailed with him from India to London in 1930. Rev.Frederick Rothwell Bolton, born 29th November 1908, moved to Ireland, becoming the Dean of Leighlin, Tipperary. Dorothy Joyce Bolton, born 15th November 1903, died 5th March 1981 in Santa Clara, California. Originally a nursery school teacher, she became an expert on child development, working at Mills College, California. Her sister, Eileen Mary Bolton, was an acommplished botanist, artist and stained glass artist.
e) Herbert Hussey Bolton, born 1871, baptised 1890, and died in Dublin in 1953. In 1914, aged 40, he joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. At the time he worked in an insurance office and had previously served with the City of Dublin Cadets. In 1911 he was living with his wife, Jane, in Sandymount and gave his age as 39.
f) Robert Arthur Bolton, born 1875, baptised 1890.
Henry Edward Bolton married, secondly, Lizzie Pauline Crothers, the daughter of Thomas Crothers of Prince William Cottage, Beggars Bush, Dublin, on 9th September 1896. One of the witnesses to the wedding was William Beckett, who was the grandfather of the playwright Samuel Beckett. William Beckett had married Fannie Crothers, also the daughter of Thomas Crothers, on 31st March 1869.
3) John Loftus Bolton was born 18th May 1843 in the parish of St. Marks , Dublin, to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe of 64 Great Brunswick Street, modern name Pearse Street. Edward Bolton was a clerk at the time of his son's birth. John Loftus later married Susan Henrietta Blackwell, the daughter of John Blackwell. He died in 1887 in Massachusetts.
4) William Bolton was born at Upper Leeson Street to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe (and the family must just have moved to this address) on 14th February 1845.
5) Susan Mary Bolton was born on 18th October 1846 at Summer Villa, Upper Leeson Street to Edward Bolton and Mary Navoe. She would marry, on 14th October 1874, George Glorney, a widowed miller, in St. Peter's Church. The Bolton family address was 93 Upper Leeson Street. George Glorney was the son of the Quaker merchant, Benjamin Glorney.
(Before his marriage to Susan Mary Bolton, George Glorney, merchant and son of Benjamin Glorney, had been married to Emilie Terry of Sunbury-on-Thames, but she had died young in 1869 of congestion of the brain - at the time of her death, the young couple were living at Park Place, Conyngham Road, Chapelizod. Before her death, on 7th August 1869, Emilie gave birth to a daughter, Florence Elizabeth Glorney at Castleknock.)
The children of George Glorney and Susan Mary Bolton were:
a) Frances Glorney, born 21st March 1875 in Blackrock, Dublin.
b) Ethel Mary Glorney, born on 18th February 1876 at Idrone Terrace, Blackrock. She worked as a governess in England, before emigrating to New York. The Simplex Rubber Company of America paid her passage over in 1916 - her next-of-kin at home was named as her mother, Susan M. Glorney of Ballsbridge. By 1937, Ethel Mary Glorney was living in Manhasset, Long Island, and had become, somehow, extremely wealthy. The Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship in the Medical Sciences was established by Miss Glorney in 1961 in honor of her personal physician,the cardiologist Milton J. Raisbeck. Dr. Raisbeck wrote, "Miss Ethel Glorney was approaching 60 when I first saw her and she died under my care in her eighties some twenty years ago. She originally came from Ireland and had an elder brother then living in Dublin, who has since died. Another brother, younger than Ethel, lived in this country (with Ethel at times) and he was a patient of mine. When he died, she named the Foundation after him: The Corlette Glorney Foundation, Inc. Corlette was an Irish squire who lived rather high, - his usual beverage was champagne. During her last ten years or so, Ethel Glorney had an apartment in the Hotel Carlyle (Madison at 76th) and I saw her at least once a week. After each visit I invariably found a little table all set with a split of iced champagne and generous supply of caviar. I was conducting a consultation practice in cardiology, but I did make (selected) house calls! I think that little routine was in memory of Corlette. In her final years, when I refused to take money over the counter which she tried to press upon me, I suggested that I meet with her and her lawyer and work something out: the Foundation was the result. At the conference we decided to make up a small Board of Directors, to consist of her lawyer, my lawyer, and the two men who had been her chief financial advisers.... "
Ethel also established a number of educational scholarships in memory of her late younger brother, Ernest Edward Glorney.
Her obituary from The New York Times: 'Glorney - Ethel Mary, on February 11 1957, devoted sister of Mrs. Emily Constance Clifford, Cecil Parker Glorney, and the late Corlette Glorney. Service at Carlyle Hotel, 35 East 76th St.'
c) George Corlette Glorney, born 9th October 1878 in Rathmines, Dublin. A businessman, Colette Glorney married Helene Guggenheim, the daughter of Isaac Guggenheim and Carrie Sonneborn of New York. The couple divorced in Florida in 1943. Helene married, as her third husband, on September 14th 1944 at Newtown Abbot, Lieutenant-Commander Sir Melville Ward. Helene's father, Isaac Guggenheim, was prominent in the US mining and smelting industry; he died in Southampton in 1922 on his way to meet up with a friend, Henry V. Marsh of Warwick Castle. Corlette and Helene accompanied his body back home to New York aboard the Lusitania.
Corlette and Helene Glorney were wealthy and highly active in the horse racing world and in New York and English society. I haven't ascertained how the Glorney siblings got their money, but possibly they were involved in mining alongside the Guggenheim family.
Corlette and Helene Glorney had a daughter, Carol Glorney.
d) Emilie Constance Glorney, born 17th May 1880 in Killiney, Dublin. She married a man by the name of Clifford.
e) Cecil Parker Glorney, born in 1881. From The Irish Times: 'He began his business career at the age of 17, selling timber, and in 1923 founded the successful company C.P. Glorney Ltd., Building Providers. Among other civic activities, he was for many years chairman and later president of the Dublin Shelter for Men, and in 1957 he founded the Glorney Charitable Foundation, an organisation for the alleviation of poverty. He died in Nice on 31st December 1973... he was President of Rathmines C.C. (ie: Chess Club) from 1939 to 1957, and club champion in 1942, 1944 and 1945.'
In 1948 Cecil Parker Glorney, competitive chess player and President of Rathmines Chess Club, created the Glorney Cup.
f) Ernest Edward Glorney, born circa 1887 at 2 Belgrave Park, Rathmines. At the outset of the First World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps and died on the 25th of November 1916. He had graduated from Columbia College New York and the Royal School of Mines South Kensington as a mining engineer. He worked abroad in North and South America and in Nigeria. Prior to joining up, he was working as the manager of the Renang Mining Company in Siam. His sister, Ethel, founded a number of educational scholarships in his name. He is buried in Deangrange Cemetery, South Dublin.
Notes on the Dublin Glorney family: George and Eleanor Glorney, who married members of the Bolton family, were the children of the Quaker miller, Benjamin Glorney. In 1787, an earlier Benjamin Glorney was noted as running a tabbynet and poplin shop in Meath Street, Dublin. He made a will in 1817. A younger Benjamin Glorney, most likely the son of the older man, married Susannah Corlet or Corlette in Dublin in 1826 - these were the parents of George and Eleanor. Benjamin ran Mardyke Mills in Chapelizod, Dublin, and he was declared bankrupt, along with a Samuel Glorney, on 13th May 1870. They were noted as 'starch and blue manufacturers'. An earlier publication noted them as manufacturers of mustard, mustard oil and cake, blues, ginger and starch.