Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett, MP (7 November 1841 – 4 August 1898) was an Irish Home Rule League Member of Parliament (M.P.)
[4] Gabbett was reported to be a patron of the theatre: “Actors in distress especially enlisted his sympathy, the theatrical profession possessing an attraction for his somewhat Bohemian tastes.”[5] In 1894, he married Augusta Janey Thornton.
: “I read, the other day, an account of the death of a former Parliamentary colleague, whose name will probably be quite unknown to the American public in general, but of whom I venture to offer a few words of reminiscence.
I am speaking of Major Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett, who was in the House of Commons and an Irish Nationalist member several years ago.
We'll all get through, I assure you, in time, if you'll only have patience; but it will do no good to the cause if we crush each other to death.’ I could not help feeling a genuine pang of personal regret when I learned that poor Gabbett's jovial, humorous career had come to an end, that he would never sing a song or make a joke on earth any more.