William Stockley

William Frederick Paul Stockley (29 June 1859 – 22 July 1943) was an Irish academic, Sinn Féin politician and Teachta Dála (TD). Early life W. F. P. Stockley was born in Templeogue, County Dublin, and was educated at Rathmines School. He was the son of John Surtees Stockley (1816–1863), who had been a British Army veterinary surgeon with the Royal Artillery during the Crimean War (and for which he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government), and Alicia Diana Catherine Gabbett of High Park, Caherconlish, County Limerick. W. F. P. Stockley's grandfather, William Stockley (1776–1860), a veterinary surgeon in the Royal Horse Artillery from 1805 to 1858 and President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, lived in Corkagh, Clondalkin, County Dublin, until 1837, after which he served in Canada and later lived out his life in London. The Stockleys were a Protestant family and W. F. P. Stockley had been raised in that faith before converting to Roman Catholicism in 1894. Academic Stockley took a senior moderatorship in modern literature at Trinity College Dublin, where his classmates included Douglas Hyde, and graduated in 1883 with a BA in English and French.