Original sentence: On 1 April, 1819, he married Harriet Sophia (1795-1854), daughter of Matthew Scott (1775-1812), 'a very eminent' and 'affluent and respectable (grain) merchant' of Carrick-on-Suir, Co.Scott  was unfairly imprisoned and severely flogged for apparently giving grain to the rebels of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Edited sentence: On 1 April, 1819, he married Harriet Sophia (1795-1854), daughter of Matthew Scott (1775-1812), formerly 'a very eminent' and 'affluent and respectable (grain) merchant' of Carrick-on-Suir, Co.Scott  was wrongly imprisoned and severely flogged for apparently giving grain to the rebels of the Irish Rebellion of 1798