Margaret Vaughan

Margaret Vaughan

Margaret Vaughan (1830–1875) was the daughter of George Vaughan of Quilly House, County Down.

Her family was distantly related to the Earl of Lisburne, whose crest and coat of arms are the same. As a child she had been brought up with the future Cardinal Vaughan, her cousin.

She married Mitchell Henry in 1852. They had nine children, five daughters and four sons. The youngest son Lorenzo Mitchell-Henry became an international pigeon shot and invented the Henrite shot-gun cartridge. He later became a record setting Tunny fisherman.

In 1875 she died aged forty-five of a fever contracted in Egypt. Her husband Mitchell Henry built a beautiful memorial church about a mile from Kylemore Castle on the shore of the lake.

The church is a miniature neo-Gothic cathedral constructed of Caen sandstone with internal columns of green Connemara marble, rose Cork (Munster) marble, black Kilkenny (Leinster) marble, and grey Armagh (Ulster) marble.

References

"Kylemore Abbey and Victorian Walled Garden" 2015 brochure for the estate.