Patrick Cusack Roney or Rooney (bapt. 2 April 1781[2] – 26 August 1849)[3] was an Irish physician who was President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1814 and 1828.[4]

"The College of Surgeons, Dublin". 1837.[1]

He was indentured to his surgeon father, Cusick Roney in 1795, and studied professionally in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where he obtained his Licentiate and subsequently elected a Member of RCSI in 1803. In 1802 Roney succeeded George O'Brien as Surgeon to the Meath Hospital, and retained that position until his death. He was also a Surgeon at Kilmainham Prison. At first, he resided in Dominick Street, and in about 1824 changed his residence to York Street.[5]

He speculated largely in stocks, and lost heavily. This misfortune obliged him to leave Dublin, and he resided with one of his sons in London for several years. He returned to Dublin, and died of Asiatic cholera on 26 August 1849, at Mountpleasant-square, and was buried in St. Catherine's Churchyard, James's-street.[3] Roney had married Charlotte Mulley in 1804.[6] Their son was the railway executive Sir Cusack Patrick Roney (1809–1868).[7]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Cusack Roney
Notes
Granted 5 January 1856 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.[8]
Crest
An arm in armour embowed grasping a sword all Proper charged with a mullet and crescent in pale Gules.
Torse
Of the colours.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Or and Argent in the first and fourth quarters a mullet Gules and in the second and third a crescent Sable over all a lion rampant Azure.
Motto
Audaces Fortuna Juvat

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References

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  1. ^ Dublin delineated in twenty-six views, etc. Dublin: G. Tyrrell, 1837. p. 49.
  2. ^ "Baptism of PATRICK CUSACK ROONEY of N/R on 2 April 1781". churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie. Irish Genealogy. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b Cameron, Sir Charles A. (1886) History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and of the Irish Schools of Medicine &c Dublin: Fannin & Co. pp. 368-370.
  4. ^ RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  5. ^ Cameron, Charles Alexander (1886). History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and of the Irish schools of medicine : including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. Dublin: Fanin. pp. 368–370.
  6. ^ "Marriage of CUSAC ROONEY of N/R and CHARLOTTE MULLEY of N/R on 1 December 1804". churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie. Irish Genealogy. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Sir Cusack Patrick Roney", The Register, and Magazine of Biography, &c., January 1869, pp. 206-207.
  8. ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. F". National Library of Ireland. p. 85. Retrieved 28 June 2022.