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William Henry Stanley Monck was born on the 21st of April 1839 in Skeirke, County Laois. Tutors helped him in his father’s house growing up. He then moved to Dublin and was educated in Trinity College Dublin.

William Henry Stanley Monck was the grandnephew of Charles Monck, the first Lord Monck. William Henry Stanley Monck was the third son of the Reverend Thomas Stanley Monck, Rector of Innistogue, County Kilkenny.

He was married to Kate Winifred Stanley Monck, daughter of Mr. Tobias Peyton of County Roscommon. He lived on Earlsfort Terrace located in Dublin with his servants Christina Hynes and Agnes Dixon, the latter to being Roman Catholics.

William Henry Stanley Monck and his wife Kate were Church Of Ireland Protestants. He was part of a long line of Anglo-Irish. They had no children.

In his back garden he had a telescope, which he used to measure starlight electricity as his first experiment. He died on the 24th June 1915. His widowed wife only survived a few months after his death. The Monck family was originally descended from the Le Moyne family in Devonshire and were prominent Anglo-Irish Protestants. Italic text