Lot Essay
Adeline Healy, ne Alton (1872-1961), was the daughter of J. Poe Alton of 'Elim', Rathgar. In 1898 in a fashionable Dublin wedding she married John Edward Healy (d.1936), a barrister and journalist who shortly afterwards became editor of the Daily Express. At about the same time she was appointed editor of the Social Review which was subsequently amalgamated with Irish Society.