Arthur O'Leary (preacher)

He was educated with the Capuchins[2] of Saint Malo, where he was ordained and spent twenty-four years as a prison chaplain.

He is charged by James Froude with having received secret-service money from the Government, but other historians consider this unproven.

He was a wit, and socially acquainted with the circle of Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Charles James Fox, and an honorary member of The Monks of the Screw.

Famous as a preacher, writer, and controversialist, he published tracts characterized by learning, religious feeling, toleration, and allegiance to the Crown.

[5] Formerly, Catholics had been loyal to the Jacobite movement, and some felt that O'Leary was being too friendly to the Hanoverian dynasty.