DORRIAN

Most Rev. Patrick . b. Down patrick, co. Down 29 March 1814; ed. at Down patrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833; ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4 June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch. Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. d. Dublin 3 Nov. 1885. D’ORSAY, Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud , Comte ( younger son of Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army ). b. Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23; became acquainted with the Earl and Counte of Ble ing ton 1822, travelled with them in South of Europe. m. at Naples 1 Dec. 1827 Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Ble ing ton, they separated 1829, she was b. 5 Aug. 1812, m. (2) 1 Sep. 1852 hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and d. 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. May fair 1833–36, at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately a ociated with Lady Ble ing ton, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment for debt April 1849, where she d. 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120 profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st; the handsomest man of his time. d. at house of his sister Duche e de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. bur. at Chambourcy near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Ble ing ton. R. R. Madden’s Literary life of the Counte of Ble ing ton i , 318–72 (1855), portrait , ii , 406–72; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii , 191–204 (1841); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known , second series ii , 198–224; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 284–90, portrait ; Gore House, Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp. 135–51; H. Melton’s Hints on hats (1875) 33–8, portrait ; Baily’s Mag. xli , 153–55 (1883); Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi , 112–26 (1852); Grantley Berkeley’s My Life (1866) iii , 201–31; S. Sidney’s Book of the horse 1886 p. 257, portrait . Note. —A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844 entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837, which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel. His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in Figaro in London 1832–34.