Editing George Boole (section)

== Professorship and life in Cork ==
[[File:Boole House Cork 2012.jpg|thumb|The house at 5 Grenville Place in [[Cork (city)|Cork]], in which Boole lived between 1849 and 1855, and where he wrote ''[[The Laws of Thought]]'' (picture taken during renovation)]]
Boole's status as a mathematician was recognised by his appointment in 1849 as the first professor of mathematics at [[Queen's College, Cork]] (now [[University College Cork]] (UCC)) in Ireland. He met his future wife, [[Mary Everest Boole|Mary Everest]], there in 1850 while she was visiting her uncle John Ryall who was professor of Greek. They married in 1855.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Boole, George |volume=4 |pages=235–236 |first=William Stanley |last=Jevons |author-link=William Stanley Jevons}}</ref><ref>Ronald Calinger, ''Vita mathematica: historical research and integration with teaching'' (1996), p. 292; [https://books.google.com/books?id=D21wKHoYGg0C&pg=PA292 Google Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427073547/https://books.google.com/books?id=D21wKHoYGg0C&pg=PA292 |date=27 April 2016 }}.</ref> He maintained his ties with Lincoln, working there with E. R. Larken in a campaign to reduce prostitution.<ref name="auto">Hill, p. 138 note 4; [https://books.google.com/books?id=-A89AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA138 Google Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527141944/https://books.google.com/books?id=-A89AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA138 |date=27 May 2016 }}.</ref>

In 1861, Boole was involved in a [[Judgment (law)|Judgement]] in the [[Court of King's Bench (Ireland)|Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland]] against one John Hewitt Wheatley of Craig House, Sligo for the sum of £400, whereby Wheatley's estate and interest in lands of Maghan/Mahon, County Cork became vested in Boole.<ref>Registry of Deeds, Dublin. Memorial: 1863-007-257 (extract). A Memorial of an Indenture of Re-Conveyance bearing date the seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty three made between William Hutchinson Massey of Mountmassey in the County of Cork, Esquire, of the first part, George Boole of Blackrock in the County of Cork, Esquire, Professor of Mathematics of the second part, Wilhelmina Smithwick of Dunmanway in said County of Cork, Spinster, of the third part and John Hewitt Wheatley of Craig House in the County of Sligo, Esquire, of the fourth part reciting a certain Indenture of Mortgage bearing date the fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty one whereby the said John Hewitt Wheatley in consideration of the sum.... And reciting that George Boole by the name and description of George Boole of Blackrock in the County of Corke, Professor of Mathematics did in or as of Trinity Term one thousand eight hundred and sixty one obtain a Judgement in the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland against said John Hewitt Wheatley for the sum of four hundred pounds debt besides costs And reciting that said Judgement was duly registered on the ninth of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty one whereby pursuant to the statute in such Case made and provided the Estate and interest of the said John Hewitt Wheatley in said lands and premises became vested in one George Boole but subject to Redemption...</ref>

In March 1863, Boole leased Litchfield Cottage, Cork, the house in which he would live with his wife Mary until his death in December of the following year.<ref>Registry of Deeds, Dublin. Memorial: 1863-011-164 (extract). Registered: 30/03/1863. Memorial of an Intended Deed&nbsp;... made between Edwards Casey then of Waterloo Place in the City of Cork, Esquire&nbsp;... and George Boole then of Blackrock in the County of Cork, Esquire, L.L.D. then Professor of Mathematics in the Queens College at Cork&nbsp;... After reciting that by Indenture of Lease bearing date the Twenty seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, John Litchfield then of Ballymaloo in the County of Cork, Esquire, did for the considerations therein mentioned demise and set unto the said William Jackson Cummins All That and Those the dwelling house with the premises and the Garden and walled in field to the rere thereof hereinafter particularly mentioned and described To Hold the said demised premises&nbsp;... To Hold the said dwelling house and premises with the appurtenances unto the said George Boole, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, from thenceforth for the then residue of the said term of one hundred years then to come and unexpired vested in him the said Edwards Casey...</ref> The premises was described in the deeds as "all that and those the dwelling house called Litchfield Cottage with the premises and appurtenances thereunto belonging and the Garden and Walled in field to the rere thereof". Boole's will bequeathed all his 'estate term and interest' in the lease of Litchfield Cottage unto his wife.<ref>Registry of Deeds, Dublin. Memorial: 1865-030-121 (extract). Registered: 20/10/1865. Memorial of a certain Deed of Assignment bearing date the Twenty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty five and made between Mary Boole of 68 Harley Street, London, Widow and Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of George Boole late of Litchfield Cottage Blackrock in the County of Cork Esquire L.L.D. deceased of the one part and Francis Heard of Ballintemple in the County of Cork, Esquire, Captain in her Majesty's eighty seventh Regiment of South Cork, Militia of the other part Whereby after reciting that by Indenture of Lease bearing date the twenty seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty six made between John Litchfield of Ballymaloo in the County of Cork, Esquire, of the one part and William Jackson Cummins of the City of Cork, Doctor in Medicine of the other part, the said John Litchfield demised unto the said William Jackson Cummins All that and those the dwelling house called Litchfield Cottage with the premises and appurtenances thereunto&nbsp;... also reciting that the said George Boole&nbsp;... having before his death duly made and published his last Will and Testament in writing and thereby bequeathed all his Estate term and interest in said hereinbefore recited Indenture of Lease and premises thereby demised unto the said Mary Boole party of said deed of which this is the Memorial and said Will was afterwards duly proved by the said Mary Boole in the Court of Probate District of Cork... witnesses as to the execution of said Deed and this Memorial by the said Mary Boole are witnessed by John Knights, Porter at Queens College, Harley Street, London and Jane White, Housekeeper 68 Harley Street, London.</ref> In August 1865, some 8 months after his death, Mary (by then living at 68 Harley Street, London) passed the house on to Francis Heard of Ballintemple, Cork, Esquire, a captain in her Majesty's 87th Regiment of South Cork.
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