Terence MacManus

Terence Bellew MacManus (probably born in County Fermanagh circa 1811; died in San Francisco, California on January 15, 1861) was a radical Irish rebel.

A successful shipping agent, he was sentenced to death for high treason for his part with William Smith O'Brien and John Blake Dillon at the engagement at Ballingarry, County Tipperary, in July 1848. The sentence was commuted to deportation for life, and he was transported to Van Diemen's Land in Tasmania, Australia in 1849 on the Swift together with O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher and Patrick O'Donoghue.

He escaped with Thomas Francis Meagher in 1852 and settled in San Francisco, California. He failed to re-establish his career as a shipping agent there and died in poverty around the age of 50 or thereabouts per all available data.

He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, on November 10, 1861, after a huge funeral organised by Fenians.

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