Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett

Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett, M.P. (7 November 1841 – 4 August 1898) was an Irish Home Rule League Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Limerick City from 1879 to 1885.

Gabbett was born on 7 November 1841. He was the son of Daniel Gabbett and Susannah Fitzgerald. Gabbett descended on his mother’s side from Miler Magrath, a sixteenth-century Archbishop of Cashel in the Church of Ireland.

He was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in the 2nd Life Guards beginning in 1862, and in the 10th Royal Hussars, retiring 6 November 1867.

Gabbett was reported to be a patron of the theatre: “Actors in distress especially enlisted his sympathy, the theatrical profession possessing an attraction for his somewhat Bohemian tastes.”

In 1894, he married Augusta Janey Thornton. He died in London on 4 August 1898.

Gabbett was a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) in County Limerick, and served in the House of Commons as a Home Rule League M.P. for the Borough of Limerick from 1879 to 1885.

Shortly after his death in 1898, Gabbett was eulogized by the Irish Nationalist journalist Justin McCarthy, M.P.:

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