McGloin, Michael
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Darcy (D'Arcy), Patrick (1725–79), soldier, Jacobite, and scientist, was born 27 September 1725 in Kiltulla, four miles from Athenry, Co. Galway, son of John Darcy and his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Blosse Lynch of Castlecurra. Sent in 1739 at the age of 14 to France, where his uncle Marti...