Biographies A-Z

Loughlin, John (1817–91), first catholic bishop of Brooklyn, New York, was born 20 December 1817 in Clonduff, Co. Down, son of John Loughlin, tenant farmer, and Mary Loughlin (née McNulty). Emigrating to the United States with his parents in 1829 or 1830, young Loughlin received…

Loughnane, William (‘Bill’, ‘Willie’) (1915–82), hurler, musician, doctor, and politician, was born 5 August 1915 in Feakle, Co. Clare, son of Willie Loughnane, farmer and shopkeeper, and Kate Loughnane (née McInerney), and educated at Feakle national school, St Flannan's College…

Loughridge, Lavinia Winifred (1930–2014), nephrologist and physician, was born on 20 May 1930 in Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, the younger of two children of John (‘Jack’) Carson Loughridge, a dispensary doctor in the town, and his wife Winifred Elizabeth Loughridge (née Wallace). Her…

Lover, Samuel (1797–1868), artist, writer, and composer, was born 24 February 1797 in Dublin, eldest son of William Frederick Lover (d. 1833), a stockbroker who ran the British Exchange Office in Dublin and had various other commercial interests, and Abigail Lover (née Maher; d. 1810),…

Lovett, Ann (1968–84), schoolgirl, was born in Cobh, Co. Cork, on 6 April 1968, the seventh of nine children (three girls and six boys) of Diarmuid Lovett (d. 1987), builder and publican, and his wife Patricia (née MacNamee, d. 2015). EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION The Lovett family moved…

Lowe (Thompson), Beatrice Geraldine Hill - (1869–1951), archer and Olympian, was born on 26 January 1869 at Ardee House, Ardee, Co. Louth, the youngest of five daughters and three sons of William Ruxton (1823–95), landowner, JP,…

Lowry, Alexander (d. 1821), Volunteer and United Irishman, was a son, or brother, of James Lowry, a prosperous presbyterian linen merchant at Linenhall, near Katesbridge, Co. Down, and his wife Elizabeth. Alexander Lowry was in 1792 a political radical, captain of the Ballyroney…

Lowry, Robert Lynd Erskine (1919–99), Baron Lowry , lord chief justice of Northern Ireland, was born 30 January 1919, only son of William Lowry (qv), judge of the Northern Ireland high court, and his wife Catherine Hughes, daughter of…

Lowry, William (1884–1949), barrister and politician, was born 19 March 1884 in Limavady, Co. Londonderry, third son of Samuel Lowry of White Hall, Limavady, clerk of the petty sessions court, and Margaret Jane Lowry (née Gibson). He was educated at Foyle College (1896–1902), where…

Lowther, James (‘Jem’) (1840–1904), chief secretary for Ireland, was born 1 December 1840 at Swillington House, near Leeds, second son of Sir Charles Lowther (1803–94) and his wife Isabella (d. 1887), daughter of the Rev. Robert Morehead, rector of Easington. He was educated first…

Lowther, Sir Gerard (Gerrard, Gerald, Garret) (d. 1624), justice of the common pleas in Ireland, was the son of Sir Richard Lowther (1529–1607), lord warden of the western marches, and his wife Frances, daughter of John Middleton of Middleton, Westmorland, England. He attended the…

Lowther, Sir Gerrard (Gerard) (1590–1660), lawyer and judge, was probably the natural son of Christopher Lowther of Penrith, Cumberland. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, on 7 June 1605. He entered Gray's Inn in 1608 and was called to the bar in 1614. He was in Dublin as…

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Lubé (Luby, Looby), George (d. p. 1801), United Irishman and grazier, was born in Corcoranstown House, in north-west Co. Kildare, into a minor catholic landed family; no other details of his parents are known. It may be inferred that he was the elder of two brothers to…

Luby, Thomas (1800–70), mathematician, was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, the son of Thomas Luby, architect, and Eleanor Luby (née Fogarty), whose family were from Castle Fogarty, Ballycahill, Co. Tipperary. The Luby family was descended from Huguenots who fled from France in…

Luby, Thomas Clarke (1822–1901), leading Fenian, journalist, and historian, was born 15 January 1822 in Dublin, son of James Luby (c.1800–c.1853), Church of Ireland minister and alumnus of TCD, and Catherine Mary Luby (…

Lucas, Charles (1713–71), politician, physician, and writer, was born 16 September 1713, the younger son of Benjamin Lucas (d. c.1727) of the townland of Ballingaddy, Kilmanahan parish, Corcomroe, Co. Clare, and his wife, Mary (née Blood), also of Co. Clare. …

Lucas, Charles Davis (1834–1914), Royal Navy officer, awarded the first Victoria Cross, was born 19 February 1834 at Drumargole, Co. Armagh, son of Davis Lucas, bank official, of Clontibert and Drumargole, a member of the Lucas-Scudamore family of Castleshane, Co. Monaghan. He…

Lucas, Frederick (1812–55), journalist and politician, was born 30 March 1812 at Westminster, second son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, a quaker and London corn merchant. His elder brother, Samuel Lucas (1811–65), became a noted journalist and social and educational reformer and married the…

Lucas, Henry (c.1740–1802), lawyer and writer, was born in Dublin, the son of Charles Lucas (qv), the well-known politician and physician, and his first wife, Anne, née Blundell. Charles Lucas had to leave Ireland in 1749,…

Luccreth (fl. early 7th cent.) of the moccu Chiara, genealogist and poet, belonged (as indicated by his name) to the early tribal group known as the Ciarraige. In the genealogies he appears as Luccrad son of Áine, a remote descendant of …

Luce, Arthur Aston (1882–1977), clergyman and philosophy professor, was born 21 August 1882 in Gloucester, England, seventh son of the Rev. John James Luce, vicar of St Nicholas church, Gloucester. He was educated initially at Eastbourne College and graduated from…

Luce, John Victor (1920–2011), classicist, was born on 21 May 1920 in Dublin, the elder of two sons of Arthur Aston Luce (qv), then professor of moral philosophy in TCD, and his wife Lilian Mary (née Thompson), a philosophy graduate…

Lucey, Cornelius (1902–82), catholic bishop of Cork, was born 15 July 1902 at the family farm at Ballincollig in the parish of Ballinora, near Cork city, youngest among six children of Cornelius Lucey, farmer, and Margaret Lucey (née Dineen). Following his initial education in the local…

Lucey, Michael (1921–2000), businessman, was born 24 February 1921 in Cabragh, Co. Cork, the son of Michael Lucey, farmer, of Cabragh, and his wife Johanna (née Riordan). A native Irish-speaker, he mastered Latin during his education at the Christian Brothers' College, Cork city.…