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LIFE OF CHARLES IIALIDAY.
After this sketch of Charles Haliday's course of study,
we now return to hi personal history, first giving a short
notice of his father, and of some of his brothers.
The father of Charles Haliday was William Haliday, a William Hu-
medical practitioner, dispensing both medicine and advice,
who for many years dwelt in the house on Arran-quay at
the corner of West Arran-street, where his son Charles dwelt
also for some years, and had it as his house of business to
the time of his death.
Mr. William Haliday was born at Carrick- on-Suir, in the
county of Tipperary, where some of the family were originally
engaged in the business of wool-combing and the mak-
ing of friezes and blankets.
It was a trade introduced by the Duke of Ormond, about
the year 1664, into his own town of Carrick, where he
assigned to the workmen half of the houses and 500 acres of
land contiguous to the walls, for three lives or thirty-one
years, at a pepper- corn rent, and afterwards at two thirds of
the old rent.
Mr. William Haliday was apprenticed by his father, in
the year 1777, to Thomas Lucas, apothecary, of Clonmel.
He completed his apprenticeship on the 14th of November,
1782, and soon after removed to Dublin. In the year
1792, he purchased from Nicholas Loftus, late Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Ko} T al Irish Regiment of Dragoon Guards, the
house on Arran-quay where he so long resided, and his son
Charles Haliday nfkr him. On 23rd December, 1795, he
became a Freeman of the city of Dublin. On the 31st
October, 1796, he had a commission from Earl Camden,
Lord Lieutenant, as Fourth Lieutenant in the Dublin
Infantry Corps, (Yeomanry) commanded by Humphry
and on 17th September, 1803, he
Al'lridge Woodward, esq. ;
received a commission from Earl Hardwicke, Lord Lieu-
tenant, as Second Captain in the first company of the armed
corps in the county of Dublin, called the Barrack Infantry.
A sister of William Haliday's, Esther Haliday, was married