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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Irish politician (1859–1943)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the Irish academic and politician. For the English organist and conductor, see <a href="/wiki/William_Stockley_(musician)" title="William Stockley (musician)">William Stockley (musician)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">William Stockley</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sean_O%27Faolain,_W._Stockley,_D.Corkery,_Tilly_Fleischmann,_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney,_Germaine_Stockley,_Aloys_Fleischmann,_visitors,1929.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Sean_O%27Faolain%2C_W._Stockley%2C_D.Corkery%2C_Tilly_Fleischmann%2C_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney%2C_Germaine_Stockley%2C_Aloys_Fleischmann%2C_visitors%2C1929.JPG/220px-Sean_O%27Faolain%2C_W._Stockley%2C_D.Corkery%2C_Tilly_Fleischmann%2C_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney%2C_Germaine_Stockley%2C_Aloys_Fleischmann%2C_visitors%2C1929.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Sean_O%27Faolain%2C_W._Stockley%2C_D.Corkery%2C_Tilly_Fleischmann%2C_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney%2C_Germaine_Stockley%2C_Aloys_Fleischmann%2C_visitors%2C1929.JPG/330px-Sean_O%27Faolain%2C_W._Stockley%2C_D.Corkery%2C_Tilly_Fleischmann%2C_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney%2C_Germaine_Stockley%2C_Aloys_Fleischmann%2C_visitors%2C1929.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Sean_O%27Faolain%2C_W._Stockley%2C_D.Corkery%2C_Tilly_Fleischmann%2C_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney%2C_Germaine_Stockley%2C_Aloys_Fleischmann%2C_visitors%2C1929.JPG/440px-Sean_O%27Faolain%2C_W._Stockley%2C_D.Corkery%2C_Tilly_Fleischmann%2C_Fr_Patrick_MacSwiney%2C_Germaine_Stockley%2C_Aloys_Fleischmann%2C_visitors%2C1929.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2060" data-file-height="1528" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Front row, left to right:<br />Sean O'Faolain, William Stockley, 1929</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la" title="Teachta Dála">Teachta Dála</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br /><a href="/wiki/1921_Irish_elections" title="1921 Irish elections">May 1921</a> – <a href="/wiki/1923_Irish_general_election" title="1923 Irish general election">August 1923</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_University_of_Ireland_(constituency)" title="National University of Ireland (constituency)">National University</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1859-06-29</span>)</span>29 June 1859<br /><a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">22 July 1943<span style="display:none">(1943-07-22)</span> (aged 84)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Violet Osborne (1892–1893)</li><li>Marie Germaine Kolb (1908–1943)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data">Rathmines School</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/w/index.php?title=File:Piece_207-182;_Prof_W_Stockley_(1922).pdf&page=3" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="British Army intelligence file Prof. W. Stockley" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Piece_207-182%3B_Prof_W_Stockley_%281922%29.pdf/page3-220px-Piece_207-182%3B_Prof_W_Stockley_%281922%29.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Piece_207-182%3B_Prof_W_Stockley_%281922%29.pdf/page3-330px-Piece_207-182%3B_Prof_W_Stockley_%281922%29.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Piece_207-182%3B_Prof_W_Stockley_%281922%29.pdf/page3-440px-Piece_207-182%3B_Prof_W_Stockley_%281922%29.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7800" data-file-height="12000" /></a><figcaption>British Army intelligence file Prof. W. Stockley</figcaption></figure> <p><b>William Frederick Paul Stockley</b> (29 June 1859 – 22 July 1943) was an <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a> academic, <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> politician and <a href="/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la" title="Teachta Dála">Teachta Dála</a> (TD).<sup id="cite_ref-oireachtas_db_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oireachtas_db-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stockley&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>W. F. P. Stockley was born in <a href="/wiki/Templeogue" title="Templeogue">Templeogue</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Dublin" title="County Dublin">County Dublin</a>, and was educated at <a href="/wiki/Rathmines" title="Rathmines">Rathmines</a> School. He was the son of John Surtees Stockley (1816–1863), who had been a <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Veterinary_physician" class="mw-redirect" title="Veterinary physician">veterinary surgeon</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> (and for which he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government), and Alicia Diana Catherine Gabbett of High Park, Caherconlish, <a href="/wiki/County_Limerick" title="County Limerick">County Limerick</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>W. F. P. Stockley's grandfather, William Stockley (1776–1860), a veterinary surgeon in the Royal Horse Artillery from 1805 to 1858 and President of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Veterinary_Surgeons" title="Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons">Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons</a>, lived in Corkagh, <a href="/wiki/Clondalkin" title="Clondalkin">Clondalkin</a>, County Dublin, until 1837, after which he served in Canada and later lived out his life in London. The Stockleys were a Protestant family and W. F. P. Stockley had been raised in that faith before converting to Roman Catholicism in 1894.<sup id="cite_ref-dib_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dib-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic">Academic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stockley&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stockley took a senior moderatorship in modern literature at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a>, where his classmates included <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hyde" title="Douglas Hyde">Douglas Hyde</a>, and graduated in 1883 with a BA in English and French.<sup id="cite_ref-dib_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dib-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1896 to 1903 he was professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Ottawa" title="University of Ottawa">University of Ottawa</a> and at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_Brunswick" title="University of New Brunswick">University of New Brunswick</a>. In 1905, he was appointed professor of English at <a href="/wiki/University_College,_Cork" class="mw-redirect" title="University College, Cork">University College, Cork</a>. He occupied the chair until his retirement in 1931. </p><p>He was president of the Cork Literary and Scientific Society from 1913 to 1915 and President of the Cork Library Committee from 1913 to 1930. </p><p>He was author of several books including <i>English Visitors to Ireland from Raleigh to Newman</i>, <i>Newman, Education, and Ireland</i>, <i>Studies in Irish Biography</i> and <i>Introduction to the Dream of Gerontius</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stockley&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stockley was a member of <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a>. He was an alderman of the <a href="/wiki/Cork_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Cork Corporation">Cork Corporation</a> from 1920 to 1925. In 1920, an attempt was made on his life by police agents.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/1921_Irish_elections" title="1921 Irish elections">1921</a>, he was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin member to the <a href="/wiki/Second_D%C3%A1il" title="Second Dáil">Second Dáil</a> for the <a href="/wiki/National_University_of_Ireland_(constituency)" title="National University of Ireland (constituency)">National University</a> constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-elecs_irl_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elecs_irl-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He voted against the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty" title="Anglo-Irish Treaty">Anglo-Irish Treaty</a> of 1921 and refused to accept the legitimacy of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Free_State" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a>. </p><p>He retained his seat, as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, at the <a href="/wiki/1922_Irish_general_election" title="1922 Irish general election">1922 general election</a>. Along with others, he maintained that the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Republic" title="Irish Republic">Irish Republic</a> continued to exist and that the rump Second Dáil, composed of anti-Treaty TDs who refused to take their seats in the Free State parliament, was the only legitimate governmental authority in Ireland. He was defeated in the <a href="/wiki/1923_Irish_general_election" title="1923 Irish general election">1923 general election</a> and subsequent November 1923 by-election. </p><p>In 1938, he was one of seven remaining abstentionist Second Dáil TDs who transferred the <a href="/wiki/Irish_republican_legitimism" title="Irish republican legitimism">"authority"</a> of what they believed was the Government of the Irish Republic to the <a href="/wiki/IRA_Army_Council" title="IRA Army Council">IRA Army Council</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stockley&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Violet_Osborne,_Mrs_Stockley_.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Portrait_of_Violet_Osborne%2C_Mrs_Stockley_.PNG/220px-Portrait_of_Violet_Osborne%2C_Mrs_Stockley_.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Portrait_of_Violet_Osborne%2C_Mrs_Stockley_.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="285" data-file-height="345" /></a><figcaption><i>Portrait of Violet Osborne, Mrs Stockley</i> (1891) by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Butler_Yeats" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Butler Yeats">Jack Butler Yeats</a></figcaption></figure> <p>William Stockley married Violet Osborne in 1892, daughter of Dublin artist William Osborne and sister of <a href="/wiki/Walter_Osborne" title="Walter Osborne">Walter Osborne</a>. At her death in 1893 she left one daughter, Violet Annie Alice Stockley, who was brought up for some years by the Osborne family in Dublin. She later became a member of staff at <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Ladies%27_College" title="Cheltenham Ladies' College">Cheltenham Ladies' College</a> and died unmarried in 1971. </p><p>In 1908 Stockley married Marie Germaine Kolb, the daughter of Max Kolb, director of the <a href="/wiki/Botanical_Garden_Munich-Nymphenburg" title="Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg">Botanical Gardens</a> in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>, and Sophie Danvin, a French pianist.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marie Germaine Stockley died in Dublin in 1949 leaving one daughter, Sophia Stockley,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who in 1933 married James Laurence Mallin, eldest son of the executed <a href="/wiki/Michael_Mallin" title="Michael Mallin">Michael Mallin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His brother was the Anglican clergyman Joseph John Gabbett Stockley (1862-1949), Canon of <a href="/wiki/Lichfield_Cathedral" title="Lichfield Cathedral">Lichfield Cathedral</a>. Stockley's sister-in-law was the German writer <a href="/wiki/Annette_Kolb" title="Annette Kolb">Annette Kolb</a>, and a nephew, Alfred Kolb, was a <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West German</a> diplomat who helped establish the Federal Republic's first Irish <a href="/wiki/Legation" title="Legation">legation</a> in 1951. </p><p>At his death in 1943 at the age of 84, Stockley resided at Arundel, <a href="/wiki/Ballintemple,_Cork" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballintemple, Cork">Ballintemple</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Cork" title="County Cork">Cork</a>. He is buried in <a href="/wiki/St._Finbarr%27s_Cemetery" title="St. Finbarr's Cemetery">St. Finbarr's Cemetery</a>, Cork. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Stockley&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-oireachtas_db-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-oireachtas_db_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Prof-William-F-P-Stockley.D.1921-08-16/">"William Stockley"</a>. <i>Oireachtas Members Database</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 March</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Oireachtas+Members+Database&rft.atitle=William+Stockley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oireachtas.ie%2Fen%2Fmembers%2Fmember%2FProf-William-F-P-Stockley.D.1921-08-16%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Stockley" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In various obituaries of WFP Stockley in 1943, his father John Surtees Stockley (who had died 80 years previously) is referred to as "RHA" (possibly Royal Hibernian Academy, but that organisation has no record of his membership; more probably this stands for <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a>.) JS Stockley's gravestone (and contemporary newspaper reports) refer to him as "RA" or "late RA", referring to his time in the Royal Artillery.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dib-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dib_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dib_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWhite" class="citation web cs1">White, Lawrence William. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/stockley-william-frederick-paul-a8321">"Stockley, William Frederick Paul"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Irish_Biography" title="Dictionary of Irish Biography">Dictionary of Irish Biography</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Stockley"</a>, Ricorso.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-elecs_irl-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-elecs_irl_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1414">"William Stockley"</a>. <i>ElectionsIreland.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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