Morgan Jellett (c. 1787–1832), later rector of Tullycorbet, County Monaghan, and his wife Harriette Townsend, daughter of Hewitt Baldwin Poole, Esq.
[2] His daughter Harriette Mary Jellett was wife of the noted Irish physicist George Francis FitzGerald.
Another daughter, Eva Jellett, was the first woman to graduate with a degree in medicine from Trinity College Dublin, and went on to practice as a doctor in India.
In 1848, he was elected to the chair of natural philosophy at Trinity College, and in 1868, he received the appointment of commissioner of Irish national education.
After the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, he took an active part in the deliberations of the general synod and in every work calculated to advance its interests.
[4] He also wrote some theological essays, sermons, and religious treatises, of which the principal were An Examination of some of the Moral Difficulties of the Old Testament (1867), and The Efficacy of Prayer (1878).