Dr john osullivan biography

Irish soldier

Sir John William O'Sullivan (c. – c.

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) was an Irish professional soldier, who spent most of his career in the service of France, but is best known for his involvement in the Jacobite rising of , an attempt to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. During the Rising, he acted as adjutant general and quartermaster general of the Jacobite army and had a major influence on the campaign.

Although many secondary works give his surname as "O'Sullivan", he used the form "Sullivan" in his own correspondence.^[1]

Early career

O'Sullivan was born c. at Cappanacush near Kenmare in County Kerry, one of two sons of Dermot O'Sullivan, whose family estate of Dunkerron had been confiscated under the Act for the Settlement of Ireland ^[2]

Information on his early life is limited and taken from The Young Juba, an often unreliable biography of Charles Stuart written in by Aeneas MacDonald, using the pseudonym