Edward MacLysaght

Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (Irish: Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames (1923).

Edward MacLysaght
MacLysaght c. 1960
Senator
In office
11 December 1922  17 September 1925
Personal details
Born
Edgeworth Lysaght

(1887-11-06)6 November 1887
Somerset, England
Died4 March 1986(1986-03-04) (aged 98)
County Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Political partyIndependent
Spouses
  • Mabel "Maureen" Pattison
    (m. 1913)
  • Mary Cuneen
Children5
Parent
  • Sidney Royse Lysaght (father)
EducationRugby School
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
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