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==Name== The name Portmagee (Port Magee and Magee's Port as it was formerly known) comes from Captain Theobald Magee, a notorious 18th-century [[smuggling|smuggler]].<ref name=IT8December /> Having served in the army of [[James II of England|King James]] as an officer, Magee 'retired' to a life of merchant shipping between France, Portugal and Ireland.<ref name=PORTRAIT1978>{{cite book|last=Pochin Mould|author-link=Daphne Pochin Mould|first=Daphne Desirée Charlotte|title=Valentia: portrait of an island|year=1978|publisher=Blackwater Press|pages=53|url=http://www.google.ie/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22Captain+Theobald+Magee%22&btnG=#hl=en&gs_nf=3&gs_rn=0&gs_ri=serp&ds=bo&pq=%22captain%20theobald%20magee%22&cp=58&gs_id=a0h&xhr=t&q=%22Captain%20Theobald%20Magee%20is%20thought%20to%20have%20been%20an%20officer%22&pf=p&tbo=d&tbm=bks&sclient=psy-ab&oq=%22Captain+Theobald+Magee+is+thought+to+have+been+an+officer%22&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=a664e060913b8b7f&bpcl=39650382&biw=1366&bih=549}}</ref> Thanks to the many inlets around the South West coast, his trade in contraband spirits, textiles and tea and tobacco was hard to police and therefore very profitable. He married Bridget Morgell,<ref name=PORTRAIT1978 /> the widow of a rich [[Dingle]] merchant and also the daughter of the then [[Dingle (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|representative for Dingle]], Thomas Crosbie. There is some suspicion that Magee's death in a [[Lisbon]] monastery was due to some exile imposed by Crosbie, an influential MP. However, his wife and sons continued the family business of smuggling.
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