Background
He was born on October 10, 1790 in Thomastown, Ireland.
( The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-192...)
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard Law School Library CTRG96-B1638 Includes index. London : Butterworth, 1902. xii, 108, 7 p. : forms ; 20 cm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1240115873/?tag=2022091-20
He was born on October 10, 1790 in Thomastown, Ireland.
He received his school education at Kilkenny, whence he passed for a short time to Maynooth; from 1808 to 1814 he studied at Dublin, where in the latter year he was ordained to the priesthood.
Ordained in 1813, Mathew entered the Capuchin order. After ordination (1814) he took charge of the Little Friary among the destitute in Cork, where he opened free schools and founded a charitable society in St Vincent de Paul's tradition.
Concurrently, the earliest European temperance organizations were forming in Ireland, and in 1838 Mathew became president of the Cork Total Abstinence Society. Between 1838 and 1842 he traveled throughout Ireland. People flocked to hear him, and whole crowds took the temperance pledge. The number of abstainers in Ireland alone in 1841 was estimated to be 4, 647, 000, and in three years the consumption of spirits dropped approximately 50 percent—much of this decrease attributable to Mathew’s efforts. He went to Scotland and England in 1842–43 and to the United States in 1849, where, despite failing health, he preached in 25 states. Incapacitated by a stroke, he returned to Ireland two years later, where he remained relatively inactive for the remainder of his life.
( The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-192...)