Biographies A-Z

Preston, Jenico (Genico) (1585–1630), 5th Viscount Gormanston , landowner and champion of the catholic cause, was the son of Christopher Preston, 4th viscount, and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam of Merrion, Dublin. Preston succeeded to his father's title in…

Preston, Katherine Mary (1868–1951), educator and principal of Alexandra College, Dublin, was born Catherine [sic] Mary McEwen on 30 April 1868 in Garvock, Scotland, elder of two daughters of Thomas McEwen, parochial schoolmaster at Baldernock, and Eliza Gray McEwen (née…

Preston, Nicholas (c.1608–43), 6th Viscount Gormanston , Old English leader, was the son of Jenico Preston (qv), 5th viscount, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Nicholas St Lawrence, Lord Howth. On the death of his…

Preston, Robert (d. 1503), 1st Viscount Gormanston , administrator, was the son of Christopher Preston, 3rd Lord Gormanston. He came of age about 1450, when he entered into his considerable inheritance, centred on Gormanston in Meath. He married Jenet, daughter of Sir Richard…

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Preston, Roger (d. 1346?), justice, was the third son of Adam, son of Philip of Preston, who came from the place of that name in Lancashire. During the first decade of the fourteenth century his two elder brothers established themselves as important merchants in Drogheda, and in 1333…

Preston, Sir William (d. 1532), 2nd Viscount Gormanston , landowner, was the son of Robert Preston (qv), 1st Viscount Gormanston, and his wife Janet (Genet), daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton, Lancashire, England. His father,…

Preston, Thomas (1860–1900), physicist, was born 23 July 1860 at Ballyhagan, Kilmore, Co. Armagh, youngest among three sons of Abraham Dawson Preston, gentleman farmer, and his wife Anne (née Hall), and was educated at Armagh Royal School and …

Preston, Thomas (1585–1655), 1st Viscount Tara , soldier, was second son of Christopher, 4th Viscount Gormanston, and his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam of Baggotrath, Co. Dublin. Thomas attended the Irish college at Douai c.1600, before…

Preston, William (1750–1807), lawyer, poet, and dramatist, was born in St Michan's parish, Dublin, the only son of William Preston, a gentleman, who disappeared about 1755, after setting out for India. William jnr attended Dr Campbell's school, Dublin, before entering as a…

Price, Arthur (1679/80–1752), Church of Ireland clergyman, was born in Dublin, son of the Rev. Samuel Price, vicar of Straffan and prebendary of Donadea, Co. Kildare, a Welshman who had settled in Ireland after the restoration of Charles II and was later appointed vicar of…

Price, Dolours (1950–2013), republican paramilitary, was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, the daughter of Albert Price (1915–96), upholsterer, and his wife Christina (née Dolan). Dolours had three sisters (the eldest died soon after birth) and a brother; she was particularly…

Price, Dorothy Stopford- (1890–1954), paediatrician, was born 9 September 1890 in Roebuck, Dublin, daughter of Jemmett Stopford, engineer, and Constance Stopford, whose father, Evory Kennedy, was master of the Rotunda Lying-In Hospital. Jemmett Stopford died from typhoid fever in 1902…

Price, Ivon Henry (1866–1931), policeman and army intelligence officer, was born 18 March 1866 in Lucan, Co. Dublin, the son of James Price, a chartered engineer, and his wife Fanny (née Peebles); the family were Church of Ireland. He was educated at St Columba's College,…

Price, James (1831–95), civil engineer, was born 18 January 1831 in Monkstown, Co. Dublin, second son of James Price of Newtown Park, Monkstown. Price entered TCD on 15 January 1847, eventually earning a diploma in civil engineering (…

Price, Liam (1891–1967), district justice and antiquary, was born 23 February 1891 and christened William George (‘Willie’), the only surviving son of George Price (d. 1915), QC (queen's counsel), of 84 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, prominent in the legal profession as registrar of the…

Price, Michael (‘Mick’) (1896–1944), revolutionary, was born 29 June 1896 at Phibsboro, Dublin, one of four sons and two daughters of Michael Price, blacksmith, and Mary Price (née Hamilton), housewife. He served in the British army in Egypt during World War I, was involved in a…

Price, Thomas (c.1599–1685), clergyman, may have been born in Wales; nothing is known of his family. Educated at TCD, he graduated BA (1623), was made a fellow of the college (May 1626), and…

Prim, John George Augustus (1821–75), antiquary and journalist, was born in Kilkenny city, fourth son among seven sons and three daughters of John Prim, solicitor and founder member (1811) of the Kilkenny Circulating Library Society, and Johanna Prim (née Anderson). Family tradition…

Pringle, (Alfred) Denis (1902–98), judge, was born 16 May 1902 in the family home at 2 Herbert St., Dublin, elder of two sons of Robert William Pringle, a barrister who died young, and Alberta Pringle (née Henshaw). His brother, …

Pringle, (Robert) Brian (1906–87), physician, was born 4 June 1905 at 2 Herbert St., Dublin, second of three sons of Robert William Pringle (1871–1919), a Dublin barrister, and Alberta Pringle (née Henshaw). His older brother, Denis…

Pringle, Seton Sidney (1879–1955), surgeon, was born 6 July 1879, son of John Pringle, a merchant businessman, of Clones, Co. Monaghan, and Maria Adelaide Pringle (née King). He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, the Coleraine Academical Institute, and…

Prior, James Michael Leathes (‘Jim’) (1927–2016), British Conservative politician, secretary of state for Northern Ireland and businessman, was born in Norwich on 11 October 1927, youngest of four children (two sons and two daughters) of Charles Prior, solicitor, and his wife Aileen (…

Prior, Michael Patrick (1942–2004), catholic theologian and anti-Zionist, was born 15 March 1942 at 5 Summerhill Terrace, Cork city, second child among three sons and one daughter of James Prior, a civic guard of 26 McSweeney's Villas, Shandon Street, Cork, and his wife Ellen (née…

Prior, Sir James (1790?–1869), naval surgeon and author, was born at Lisburn, Co. Antrim, son of Matthew Prior (nothing is known of his mother), and trained as a surgeon. On 22 June 1810 he sailed from Plymouth as ship's surgeon on the RN frigate …