Ballitore School

ML 's mother put her children into the Quaker plain dress at an early age, in order to make no difference between them and their older half-siblings. Mary was well educated, and developed her taste...

ML 's father, Richard Shakleton or Shackleton, from a family which had settled in Ireland from Yorkshire, was a schoolmaster at Ballitore School . Unusually for a Quaker, he had been educated at Trinity College

ML 's grandfather Abraham Shakleton was a writer, and founded and taught at Ballitore School ; his pupils included his son (who later carried on the school) and Edmund Burke . He died on 24...

Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This...