They were married on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1835 in the British Embassy Chapel in Paris. She had three brothers and two sisters. One of her brothers was Francis Horner (1778 - 1817), a Whig MP; another, Leonard Horner (1785 - 1864), was a noted geologist. 1859 Photograph A photograph (above) of Byrne faces page 185 in Nicholas Furlong's "Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue: 1753-1798" (Dublin, 1991). According to the author, it was taken in Paris in 1859 and was thought to be the first photograph taken of an Irishman. That distinction is probably owed to an 1844 calotype by the pioneer photographer Henry Fox Talbot of the Irish poet (and biographer of Wolfe Tone) Thomas Moore. (In 1821 Byrne had refused to attend a St Patrick's day dinner Moore had organised in Paris because of the presence of Wellesley Pole Long, a nephew of the Duke of Wellington). The photograph of Byrne, possibly the only one of a United Irish veteran, is now in Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland, in Dublin. John Mitchel visited Byrne when he was 80 years old and described him as "One of those rare beings who never grow old". Death Miles Byrne died at his house in the rue Montaigne (now rue Jean Mermoz, 8th arrondissement, near Champs-Élysées), Paris on Friday 24 January 1862, and was buried in Montmartre Cemetery. His grave there is marked by a Celtic Cross - but this headstone appears to be a 1950s replacement for an earlier one. The inscription to his original headstone appears in his Memoirs; in part, it read: ('Sincerely attached to Ireland, his country of birth, he faithfully served France, his country of adoption') References Miles Byrne (1780-1862) - Memoirs of Miles Byrne (1863). Nicholas Furlong, "Fr. John Murphy of Boolavogue: 1753-1798" (Dublin, 1991). Stephen Gwynn (ed.), Memoirs of Miles Byrne - edited by his Widow, 2 vols. (Dublin & London, 1907). K. Wkelan (ed) & W. Nolan (assoc. ed.), "Wexford: History and Society" (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1987). Leonard Horner (ed.), "Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P." (Boston, 1853). 1780 births 1862 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur People from County Wexford United Irishmen Burials at Montmartre Cemetery Irish emigrants to France Irish soldiers in the French Army Military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars