William O'Grady (1801–1859) was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the middle of the nineteenth century.
[1] O'Grady was the ninth child (4th son) of Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore,[2] Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for Ireland from 1805 until 1831 and his wife Katherine Waller.
[5] He was Rector of Killinane, County Galway, and Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh from 1857 until his death on 21 July 1859.
[6] Isabella died in 1852, aged 36, and William erected a memorial in Loughrea Church to his "beloved wife".
He did everything possible to alert the authorities to the magnitude of the crisis, and wrote at length to the newspapers on the subject.