Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Feargus Edward O'Connor (18 July 1794 – 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan.Feargus O'Connor was born on 18 July 1794 in Connorville house, near Castletown-Kinneigh in west County Cork, into a prominent Irish Protestant family who claimed to be the descendants of the 12th-century king Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair. His father was Irish nationalist politician Roger O'Connor, who like his uncle Arthur O'Connor was active in the United Irishmen. His elder brother Francis became a general in Simón Bolívar's army of liberation in South America.Much of his early life was spent on his family's estates in Ireland.[1] He was educated mainly at Portarlington Grammar School and had some elementary schooling in England.[2] He was financed on a farm in Ireland by Francis Burdett, a friend of his father, but was unsuccessful.[1] He studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, before inheriting his uncle's estate in 1820. He took no degree,[3] but was called to the Irish bar about 1820. Since he had to take an oath of allegiance to become a member of the Bar, his father disinherited him because he regarded it as inconsistent with the dignity of a descendent of the Kings of Ireland. }
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- Feargus_O'Connor abstract "Feargus Edward O'Connor (18 July 1794 – 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan.Feargus O'Connor was born on 18 July 1794 in Connorville house, near Castletown-Kinneigh in west County Cork, into a prominent Irish Protestant family who claimed to be the descendants of the 12th-century king Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair. His father was Irish nationalist politician Roger O'Connor, who like his uncle Arthur O'Connor was active in the United Irishmen. His elder brother Francis became a general in Simón Bolívar's army of liberation in South America.Much of his early life was spent on his family's estates in Ireland.[1] He was educated mainly at Portarlington Grammar School and had some elementary schooling in England.[2] He was financed on a farm in Ireland by Francis Burdett, a friend of his father, but was unsuccessful.[1] He studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, before inheriting his uncle's estate in 1820. He took no degree,[3] but was called to the Irish bar about 1820. Since he had to take an oath of allegiance to become a member of the Bar, his father disinherited him because he regarded it as inconsistent with the dignity of a descendent of the Kings of Ireland".