Leonard Macnally

(1752-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: MacNally, Leonard, 1752-1820 DNB: Macnally, Leonard (1752-1820), playwright and political informer LBT ID: LeMacna1820 VIAF ID: 8442670 LOC ID: n83122721	B/BAP: 1752 DIED: 1820-02-13
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Irish barrister and author who wrote a series of plays produced at Covent Garden; he was a United Irishman and, as it was later revealed, a political informer.
REFERENCES TO Leonard Macnally: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1814 Found 1: ¶ n1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 5