Archibald MacIlroy was born in Ballyclare, County Antrim, and worked in insurance and banking and was a local councillor. He wrote many stories and novels, including A Banker's Love Story (1901); The Humour of Druid's Island (anecdoted of Islandmagee) and The Auld Meeting House Green (1898). He died at sea in the Lusitania which was sunk off the coast of Cork in 1915.

Born:	1860
Died:	1915