Colonel Sir John Hurley, Jacobite soldier and rapparee, fl.
for Kilmallock in 1689 and married Mary Blount, and a grandson of Sir Maurice Hurley of Knocklong, eldest son of Sir Thomas and Joanna daughter of John Brown of Mount Brown, County Limerick .
[citation needed] Along with fellow rapparees colonel Dermot Leary, captain Edmond Ryan, captain Matthew Higgins and John Murphy, issued a proclamation in Dublin December 1694, attacking all those not loyal to James II of England.
A reward of two hundred pounds was offered to anyone who brought to them any member of King William's privy council and a further fifty pounds for any chief officers still in arms against king James.
(p. 92)[citation needed] He was a cousin of Luis Roberto de Lacy (1772–1817), brigadier general of the Spanish Army who fought for Spain in the Peninsular War.