James Bartholomew Blackwell

James Bartholomew Blackwell was an Irish born mercenary and French Army officer serving the First French Republic and later under Napoleon. He also played a role in the 1798 Rebellion.

James Bartholomew Blackwell was born on Barrack Street in Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland. Records of his year of birth vary between 1763 and 1765.He was closely related to Dr Bartholomew Murray who died in Paris onJanuary 1767. Dr Murray had been a generous benefactor of the Irish College in Paris, and in his will left further rich bequests towards the education of Irish students destined for the priesthood to serve on the mission in Ireland. At the age of eleven James left Ennis for Paris and there he entered the Collge des Lombards on the burse founded by his late granduncle, Dr. Murray, and he began his ecclesiastical studies.

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