| O'Molony | Chidley Kearnan | | | Son of Lieutenant Henry Anthony O'Molony, was born at Cawnpore, Jan, 1845, while the first Sikh War was raging, his father being present at the battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon. Mr O'Molony comes of the very ancient Milesian family of Molony, of Kiltanon, Company Clare, his father was second sun of Lambert Molony, formerly a Judge in the HEIOS, and again assumed the prefix which was dropped by the head of the family after the Revolution of 1688, the family name still remaining without the prefix. His early years were spent in the Royal Navy, retiring from the service soon after obtaining a first-class certificate fur the rank of Paymaster. He served in Australia and in New Zealand during the closing periods of the Maori War in the sixties; also in the South Sea Islands, including the Samoa and Fiji groups; in the Channel Fleet, and on the West Coast of Africa. Mr O'Molony was mentioned in despatches by Colonel Kekewich for services in his Civil capacity during the siege of Kimberley by the Boers in 1899-1900. Mr O'Molony is Town Clerk and Treasurer of the important borough of Kimberley, in which capacity he has served for many years and still holds the appointment. He is a JP for the District of Kimberley, of a studious disposition, and fund of shooting. He married, in 1872, Emma, daughter of Selwyn Schofield Sugden, formerly Deputy Gov., of HM Prison at Gibraltar. Of his four children one son, Chidley Selwyn Anthony, is in the service of the ORC, another, Ernest Andrew, is in the Cape Government Railway Service, and a third, Frederick Sugden, is at present an undergraduate at the South African College, Cape Town. | Unknown |
