Captain Standish O'Grady
(1829-1901)
11 February 1863

Volume 10, page 71, sitting number 12,653. 

Captain Standish de Courcy O'Grady was an officer in the 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot who served with distinction during the Indian Mutiny. 

On 31 March 1864 at Ballygawley, county Tyrone, 'Standish de Courcy O'Grady, Captain 64th Reg., youngest son of the late — O'Grady, of Kiballyowen, county Limerick, [married] Charlotte, third daughter of the late George Powell Houghton, of Kilmannock house, Wexford, Esq. J P, D L' (Army & Military Gazette, 9 April 1864).

On 24 October 1871 at St Anne's Church in Dublin he married secondly 'Isabella, elder daughter of the Rev. W. Sheppard, M.A., late Incumbent of Kilgefin, Diocese of Elphin' (Belfast Newsletter, 27 October 1871).

In 1874 he was arrested by German police at the railway station in Dresden when he refused their demands for money. According to various reports of the incident that appeared in British newspapers, he was deaf. 

He died at Limerick on 25 August 1901, aged 72.