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Personal data Edward Tempany 

  • He was born on March 1, 1888 in Dromore West, County Sligo, Ireland.
    Name: Edward Tympany
    Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1888
    Registration District: Dromore West
    Birth Country: Ireland
    Volume: 4
    Page: 175
    FHL Film Number: 101062
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1925 Medical Dictionary mention.
      Name: Edward Tempany
      Residence Date: 1925
      Residence Place: Templeboy, Co. Sligo, Ireland
      Directory: The Medical Directory
    • in the year 1940 Senior House Surgeon..
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1911: 3, Barnacoghil, Templeboy North, Sligo, Ireland.
      Name: Edward Tempany Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Age: 23 Birth Year: abt 1888 Birth Place: County Sligo
      Residence Date: 2 Apr 1911 House Number: 3 Townland/Street: Barnacoghil District: Templeboy North
      County: Sligo Country: Ireland Electoral District: Templeboy North Literacy: Read and write Language Spoken: Irish and English Occupation: Student of Medecine N U I Religion: Roman Catholic Relationship: Son
      URL: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Templeboy_North/Barnacoghil/769826/
      Household Members Age Relationship Winifred Tempany 63 Head Stephen Tempany 24 Son Edward Tempany 23 Son John Tempany 22 Son
    • from 1940 till 1957: The Red Lodge, Oakwood Lane, Roundhay, Leeds, Yorkshire.
      Name: Edward Tempany
      Residence Date: 1940
      Residence Place: Red Lodge, Roundhay, Leeds, 8 and 65, Beckett St., Leeds 9
      Notes: Tels. Oakwood 66097 and Leeds 25647
      Directory: The Medical Directory
  • He died on September 24, 1957 in St. James Hospital, 123 Beckett Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, he was 69 years old.
  • He is buried in the year 1957 in Killingbeck Roman Catholic Cemetary, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
    Name: Edward Tempany
    Death Date: 25 Sep 1957
    Cemetery: Killingbeck Roman Catholic Cemetery
    Burial or Cremation Place: Killingbeck, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
  • Probate on February 24, 1958 naar London, England.
    To Mary Josephine Tempany (The elder) widow, and Mary Josephine Tempany (the younger) spinster Effects ¹18,929-9s-7d

    Name: Edward Tempany
    Death Date: 25 Sep 1957
    Death Place: Leeds, England
    Probate Date: 24 Feb 1958
    Probate Registry: London, England
  • This information was last updated on May 5, 2021.

Household of Edward Tempany

He is married to Maria Josephina (Mollie) Joy.

They got married on September 21, 1921 at St. Saviours Church, Gardners St. Dublin, he was 33 years old.Source 1

Name: Edward Tempany Date of Registration: 1921, Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district: Dublin North, Ireland Volume: 2
Page number: 477 FHL Film Number: 101264 Records on Page Edward Wynne Edward Tempany Mary Malone
Mary Joy Mary Mulhall Christopher Kearns William Morris Mary Murray

Notes about Edward Tempany

Article about his son in Dublin Eye newspaper.

Professor Edward Tempany
March 14 2010 04:43 AM

PROFESSOR Edward Tempany was born in Leeds in 1930 into the sort of Irish medical family in Britain which is celebrated by John Walsh in Falling Angels. His father, a general practitioner, was from Sligo and his mother from Kerry. On the outbreak of war the children were sent to Ireland for safety and for schooling.

And it was here that he spent the majority of his life -- at Clongowes Wood College, at University College, Dublin, and later in medical practice.

Prof Tempany held the Chair of Paediatric Medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and was a consultant paediatrician at both Our Lady's Hospital and the Coombe. In the course of a long and distinguished career he held many senior posts in clinical practice and medical administration.

After graduating in medicine in UCD, and in pursuit of a special interest in diseases affecting children, he took appointments in Washington and at Great Ormond Street, London, where he became a senior medical registrar.

Returning to Ireland in the early 1960s, he became a pioneer in the development of paediatrics as a specialism. And with a group of brilliant young contemporaries, he established the specialism in Ireland and the Crumlin Hospital as a centre of excellence. His special interest was in the treatment of patients suffering from cystic fibrosis. In this field he gained an international reputation, leading to the Chair of the International Cystic Fibrosis Scientific Committee and an honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

More importantly, he won the respect and admiration of his professional peers and the affection and respect of the families of children suffering from this distressful and debilitating condition. To them, he devoted not only his professional skill and care, but his voice in constant advocacy for the provision of better services for family support and continuing care.

An inspiring teacher and tutor, he acted as examiner to both Royal Colleges in Dublin, in Edinburgh, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. With a group of colleagues from the RCSI, he helped set up a medical school in Penang. When he retired he served with Judge Mary Laffoy on the Commission to Inquire into the Abuse of Children. In his last years, in practice and in retirement, he suffered from a painfully disabling chronic condition which became progressively more difficult. This he bore with his customary good humour, never allowing it to interfere with his care of patients or his duties as a host.

In 1959, he married Noirin O'Keeffe, a daughter of the then-general secretary of the GAA. This provided an interesting cultural challenge to a cricket-loving Old Clongownian, but he rapidly became acclimatised to gaelic games -- admittedly from the relative safety of a seat in the Hogan Stand.

Half a century on, he might have felt somewhat vindicated when an English rugby team played an international in Croke Park, but nature and nurture combined and he cheered on an Irish victory.

Outside medicine, his interests were in his family and in friendship, for which he had a positive genius. His passions were gardening -- from window-boxes to glasshouses to vegetable growing and the care of trees -- and angling.

The first rumour of the mayfly rising on Lough Mask had him racing to Cong in what became an annual ritual until growing infirmity meant he could not cast a fly. Apart from that, he enjoyed pottering around his Wexford retreat in Fethard.

Eddie Tempany was a civilised man who carried his learning and his many distinctions lightly.

He enjoyed conversation, the theatre, a good book, good food, and an exceptional wine. Above all, his gift was for friendship and hospitality.

He could tell a good yarn, and he was a good mimic, with a sharp wit.

22nd February 2010
TEMPANY, Prof. Edward (Rathgar, Dublin), February 22, 2010 - (peacefully) at St. James's Hospital, devoted husband of Noirín (nee O'Keeffe), loving father to Caitríona, Siobhán, Kevin, Diarmuid, Muirín, Úna and Niall, adored grandfather to his sixteen grandchildren, beloved brother of Winnie, Joey, Pat and Maurice. Sadly missed by his wife, daughters, sons, sisters, brother, grandchildren, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, extended family, wonderful friends and colleagues. Removal on Friday evening (February 26) to Church of the Three Patrons, Rathgar arriving at 5.30 o'clock Funeral Mass on Saturday at 10 o'clock, thence to Mount Venus Cemetery, Rathfarnham. Family flowers only. House strictly private. Donations, if desired, to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin."Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis"

Published in the Irish Times on 24th February 2010

Beckett Street, no 65, Recovery Street

Beckett Street, no 65, Recovery Street
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1955, On the left edge of this view Wood's greengrocers can be seen at the junction of Beckett Street and Pollard Street. The large building with bay windows in the centre is number 65 Beckett Street, the surgery of Dr Edward Tempany. Moving right is Recovery Street with the corner of number 67 Beckett Street on the right edge.

User Comments:
Name:Lynda Heath
Comment:I can just about remember old Dr Tempany he used to wear a morning coat. His daughter Dr Mary practiced for years after he died. She was well known for her intolerance of malingerers.
Date:01-Aug-2009
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Name:Maurice Tempany
Comment:Dr Edward Tempany was my late father, I was the youngest of his five children. He made a huge number of house calls each day and as a small boy I frequently accompanied him when he was in his Ford motorcar. I still recall the generosity of his patients to me as a young boy ---bananas were a special,treat ! The poorest were very kind to't't doctors lad' -----60 years ago now !
Date:18-Aug-2009
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Name:Dennis Eastwood
Comment:If I am correct DrTempany and his daughter Mary both looked after our family on Seacroft village Green But I remember the surgery on Foundry Lane.Our family had nothing but respect for both Dr Tempany's
Date:10-Dec-2010
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Name:Brenda Jackson was Tebbs
Comment:Dr Tempany was our Doctor and I remember Dr Mary. We lived in Westlock Grove, now gone but I still remember Dr Tempany making a house visit when I had tonsillitis, I was about 8 at the time, he looked so big in my tiny bedroom, All my Relatives, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles lived in the Westlock and had nothing but praise for Dr Tempany, he was a fine Doctor and my family loved him.You should be very proud of your father Maurice.
Date:20-Jul-2017
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Sources

  1. Marie Therese Joy via Jim Joy Annadale Killorglin, Marie Therese Joy via Jim & Joan Joy Annadale Killorglin

Historical events

  • The temperature on March 1, 1888 was about -3.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
    • June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
    • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
    • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
    • September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
    • September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
  • The temperature on September 24, 1957 was between 9.0 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 9.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
    • January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
    • February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
    • April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
    • June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
    • July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
    • December 20 » The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.


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