Purcell O'Gorman

[3] He was educated at Clongowes, a Jesuit school, then at the age of sixteen matriculated at Trinity College Dublin.

On 9 December 1845 he transferred to the 90th Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) as a Lieutenant and was promoted Captain on 2 April 1852.

[4] O'Gorman served as one of Waterford's two Home Rule League members of parliament from February 1874 until 1880.

[4] In March 1875, barely a year after his election to the House of Commons, he was caricatured by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini) in the London Vanity Fair magazine as "The Joker for Waterford".

[7] In 1860 their elder daughter, Frances Alice O'Gorman, married Captain E. J. Anderson, Royal Engineers.