the Greater Saltee Island from whence they planned to escape to republican France. They were, however, betrayed and Harvey was arrested by Ralph James, an officer of the Irish Yeomanry, and brought to Wexford town. He was tried, convicted and hanged on Wexford bridge on 28 June 1798, with Colclough, Roche and Cornelius Grogan. His body was afterwards beheaded, the trunk thrown into the River Slaney and the head displayed on a spike on the courthouse. His corpse was recovered by his friends and buried in Mayglass cemetery, near Mountpleasant House, the house he lived in before he died. He was unmarried and succeeded by his brother James, who recovered the attainted family estates 12 years later. In his memoirs Jonah Barrington listed Harvey as a rebel supporter in April 1798, before the rebellion started. Thomas Collins, the government spy in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, had also informed Dublin Castle about his republican views as early as 1793. The Rev John Graham wrote in his diary for 16 June 1798, "The Wexford Rebels have taken the command away from Bagenal Harvey and given it to one Clinch, a Popish Priest", so it may be that Harvey did not resign his commission. Father Clinch of Enniscorthy was killed on 21 June on the retreat from Vinegar Hill. Family Harvey secretly married in 1797 Judith Dockrell, but his only known children were from his liaison with Elizabeth Smith. He was a cousin of the founder of Bagenalstown in County Carlow, and was an ancestor of General Beauchamp Doran. See also Wexford Rebellion of 1798 John Henry Colclough, Cornelius Grogan, Matthew Keogh, Philip Roche, John Kelly of Killanne - Rebel leaders hanged on Wexford bridge, 25/28 June 1798 References Year of birth missing 1798 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin People executed by the Kingdom of Great Britain People executed by the Kingdom of Ireland by hanging Protestant Irish nationalists United Irishmen People from County Wexford Executed Irish people Irish duellists