Robert Stearne Tighe


Robert Stearne Tighe was an Irish writer and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Life

He was the son of Richard Stearne Tighe, Member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy, and his wife Arabella, daughter of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and Edith Proby, born 3 March 1760. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1776, and in the same year inherited the estate of his grandfather Robert Tighe.
Tighe was elected to the Royal Society in 1793. He died on 21 May 1835.

Works

  • Melantius: A Letter Addressed to Mr. Orde Upon the Education of the People
  • Observations and reflections on the state of Ireland, with a reply Considerations on the late and present state of Ireland.

Family

Tighe married:
  1. In 1786, Catherine Morgan, daughter of Hugh Morgan of Cottelstown, County Sligo; they had sons Robert Morgan, William Stearne, and Hugh Usher, and a daughter Catherine who married William Henry Worth Newenham of Coolmore, son of William Worth Newenham.
  2. Anna Dilkes, sister of Major-General William Thomas Dilkes.