EDMUND (1729-1797).-Statesman, orator, and political philosopher, was the _s._ of an attorney in Dublin, where he was _b._ His _f._ was a Protestant, but his mother, whose maiden name was Nagle, was a Roman Catholic. He received his early _ed._ at a Quaker school at Ballitore, and in 1743 proceeded to Trinity Coll., Dublin, where he graduated