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2 unusual facts about John Sadleir


Independent Irish Party

However two Irish MPs, John Sadleir and William Keogh then broke ranks by joining this ministry, an act for which they were never forgiven in Ireland, where they were remembered with contempt a century later.

John Sadleir

The central character of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now (1875), Melmotte (also swindling financier who is bankrupt and commits suicide) may have been based on Sadleir, as well.


An Old Score

An Old Score is an 1869 three-act comedy-drama written by English dramatist W. S. Gilbert based partly on his 1867 short story, Diamonds, and partly on episodes in the lives of William Dargan, an Irish engineer and railway contractor, and John Sadleir, a banker who committed suicide.

Edmund O'Flaherty

Described as "a man of great warmth, cleverness and inexhaustible resource", he was a friend of William Keogh and John Sadleir.


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