John Cathcart Lees (1777 - 1858)

Born: October 21, 1777¹
Died: September 1858¹
Married: February 4, 1800¹
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John Cathcart Lees was a practising barrister. His brother, Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees (1776 - 1852), was a protestant evangelical notorious for his anti-catholic views. John Cathcart Lees, converted to Roman Catholicism², whether due to deep religious conviction or to annoy his elder brother, we can only speculate. In 1800 he married Mary Shaw, daughter of Robert Shaw and Mary Higgins¹.

Sources

1. The Peerage: John Cathcart Lees
2. Converts to Rome by Gordon-Gorman, W. (1910). Published by Sands and Co., London p. 169. John Cathcart Lees, brother of the late Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Baronet, of Dublin