Biographies A-Z

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Stoppelaer Michael (c.1710–1777), actor, singer, and painter, was born in Dublin, second son of William Stoppelaer, merchant; nothing is known of his mother or the family's antecedents. His older brother was Charles Stoppelaer (c.1700–72), who also performed on the…

Story, George Warter (d. 1721), clergyman and chronicler, was the eldest of at least three sons of Thomas Story of Justice Town, near Carlisle. He was probably born before 1670, but little is known of his early career. He was chaplain to the dowager countess of Carlisle at Castle…

Story, John Benjamin (1850–1926), ophthalmologist, was born 31 August 1850 at Aghabog, Co. Monaghan, eldest son of the Rev. William Story (d. 1888) of Corick, Co. Tyrone, rector of Aghabog, and his wife Sarah (d. 1909), daughter of John Black of Sligo. He attended Winchester School…

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Stotherd, Richard Hugh (1828–95), army officer and surveyor, was born 25 November 1828 at Augher Castle, Co. Tyrone, son of Lieut. (later Gen.) Richard John Stotherd (1796–1879) and his first wife, Elizabeth Sydney (d. 1853), daughter of Hugh Boyle of…

Stott, Thomas (1755–1829), linen-bleacher and poet, was born 21 April 1755 at Hillsborough, Co. Down, son of William Stott, a prosperous quaker linen merchant, and Sarah Stott (née Thompson). In 1777 Thomas Stott ceased to have a connection with the Society of Friends as a…

St Paul, John of (c.1295–1362), archbishop of Dublin and chancellor of Ireland, was probably related to the St Paul family, lords of Byrom in west Yorkshire, England. In 1330 he received a dispensation for illegitimacy, but in December 1339 he secured a declaration of…

Strachan, John (1862–1907), philologist and celticist, was born 31 January 1862 in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, son of James Strachan, owner of Brae farm, and Ann Strachan (née Kerr). He was educated at Keith grammar school and entered King's College, Aberdeen, in 1877 at the age of…

Strain, Alexander (c.1877–1943), Dublin builder and property developer, was born in Markethill, Co. Armagh, eldest son of Robert Douglas Strain, builder, and his wife Margaret (née McFadden). Alexander moved to Dublin in 1893 and initially worked for a timber dealer in…

Strangman, Mary Somerville Parker (1872–1943), doctor and suffragist, was born 16 March 1872 at Carriganore, Killotteran, Co. Waterford, sixth of seven children of Thomas Handcock Strangman, gentleman, of Carriganore, and Sarah White Strangman (née Hawkes), formerly of Castle White…

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Stratford, John (c.1697–1777), 1st earl of Aldborough , landowner and MP, was probably born 10 August 1697 (although some sources suggest 1698 or 1699), third son of Edward Stratford, landowner, and his first wife, Elizabeth (née Beasley or Baisley), of Belan, Co. Kildare…

Strathdee, Ernest (‘Ernie’) (1921–71), rugby international and broadcaster, was born on 26 May 1921 in Belfast, the son of Ernest Strathdee and his wife Nellie (née Moore). Educated at Belfast High School and Queen's University Belfast (QUB), he was a talented scrum-half throughout the…

Street, George Edmund (1824–81), architect, was born 20 June 1824 at Woodford, Essex, England, third son of Thomas Street, solicitor, of Brabant Court, Philpot Lane, London, and his second wife, Mary Anne Street (née Millington). Educated at schools in Mitcham and Camberwell, he…

Strickland, Walter George (1850–1928), art historian, bibliographer and antiquary, was born in South Africa on 3 June 1850, son of Thomas Strickland, of the family of Sizergh castle, Kendal, Westmorland (Cumbria), England. Educated at Ushaw College, Durham, and King's College, London,…

Stritch, James , (1855/6?–1933), Fenian and founder of the National Graves Association, was born in Co. Roscommon, possibly to Thomas and Elizabeth Stritch. Towards the end of his life, during which he was the trusted treasurer of the Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee and a participant…

Strong, Eithne (née O'Connell) (1923–99), writer, was born 28 February 1923 in Glensharrold, Co. Limerick. One of five children, though her parents were teachers she was brought up on a farm and educated locally through Irish. She briefly attended …

Stronge, Sir Charles Norman Lockhart (1894–1981), 8th baronet, politician, was born 23 July 1894 in Bryansford, Co. Down, the only son among two children of Sir Charles Edmond Sinclair Stronge (1862–1939) of Tynan Abbey, Co. Armagh, and Marian Iliff Stronge (née Bostock) of Walton…

Strong, Leonard Alfred George (1896–1958), writer, was born 8 March 1896 in Plymouth, Devon, England, first of two children of Leonard Ernest Strong, a manufacturer of artificial fertiliser, and his wife Marion, daughter of Alfred Mongan, a law clerk in Dublin. He spent summer…

Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de (1797–1873), explorer and humanitarian, was born 20 July 1797 into the Polish aristocracy in Prussian-occupied Poland, the son of Francis Strzelecki and his wife Anna (née Raczynski). The family went into exile in the UK in the early 1800s. Strzelecki was…

Stuart, Gilbert Charles (1755–1828), portrait painter, was born 3 December 1755 at North Kingstown near Newport, Rhode Island, North America, son of Gilbert Stuart, snuff miller, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Albro Anthony of Newport. Stuart is celebrated in the USA…

Stuart, (Henry) Francis (Montgomery) (1902–2000), novelist, was born 29 April 1902 in Townsville, Australia, son of Henry Irwin Stuart, sheep farmer, and Elizabeth Stuart (née Montgomery), Ulster protestants who had married in 1901 in Dervock, Co. Antrim. Stuart's father committed…

Stuart, Henry Windsor Villiers (1827–95), MP, clergyman, and Egyptologist, was born 13 September 1827, the only son of Henry Villiers-Stuart (1803–74), 1st Baron Stuart de Decies, of Dromana, Co. Waterford, privy councillor, MP (1826–30) and lord lieutenant of Co. Waterford (1831–…

Stuart, James (1764–1840), newspaper editor and historian, was born in Armagh city, son of Benjamin Stuart of Co. Antrim. He was educated at Armagh Royal School under Dr Arthur Grueber and in 1784 took sixth place on entrance to TCD. He…