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Gore, John Ellard

Gore, John Ellard (1845–1910), amateur astronomer and writer on astronomy, was born 1 June 1845 in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, eldest among four sons and one daughter of John Ribton Gore (1820–94), archdeacon of Achonry, Co. Sligo, and Frances Brabazon Gore (née Ellard). He was educated…

Gosset, William Sealy (‘Student’)

Gosset, William Sealy (‘Student’) (1876–1937), scientist, Guinness brewer, and applied statistician, was born 13 June 1876 in Canterbury, Kent, eldest of five children of Agnes Sealy Gosset (née Vidal) and Frederic Gosset, colonel in the Royal Engineers, who were married in 1875.…

Grattan, John

Grattan, John (1800–71), apothecary and naturalist, was born in Dublin. Little is known of his family or early schooling. He obtained his diploma at the Apothecaries’ Hall, Dublin (c.1823), where a seven years’ apprenticeship was required before final examination. Looking…

Graves, Charles

Graves, Charles (1812–99), clergyman, mathematician, and antiquarian, was born 6 November 1812 at 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, youngest child among four sons and one daughter of John Crosbie Graves, chief police magistrate of Dublin, and his wife Helena, daughter of the Rev. Charles…

Graves, John Thomas

Graves, John Thomas (1806–70), jurist and mathematician, was born 4 December 1806 at 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, eldest son of four boys and one girl of John Crosbie Graves, chief police magistrate of Dublin, and his wife Helena, daughter of the Rev. Charles Perceval, rector of…

Graydon, George

Graydon, George (c.1753–1803), cleric, geologist, and social reformer, was probably born at Killashee, Co. Kildare, one of four sons and a daughter of George Graydon, gentleman, and Jane Graydon (neé Maxwell). The eldest son, Robert (c.1744–1800), represented…

Green, William Spotswood

Green, William Spotswood (1847–1919), marine scientist, was born 10 September 1847 in Youghal, Co. Cork, the only son and eldest of six children of Charles Green, JP, merchant of Youghal, and his wife Catherine Frances, daughter of Walter…

Greer, Thomas

Greer, Thomas (1875–1949), entomologist and pioneer motorcyclist, was born 24 April 1875, elder son among two sons and two daughters of Frederick Greer, a landowner of independent means, and Cecilia Greer (née Staples), of Tullylaggan, Co. Tyrone. The family was connected to many of…

Griffith, Sir Richard John

Griffith, Sir Richard John (1784–1878), public servant, surveyor, and geologist, was born 20 September 1784 at 8 Hume St., Dublin (the house is marked by a plaque), son of Richard Griffith (qv), MP for Askeaton, deputy governor of Co.…

Grundon, Michael Francis

Grundon, Michael Francis (1926–89), chemist, was born 21 June 1926 in London, son of H. S. Grundon and Sheila Lock. He was educated at Wellington school, Somerset, where he won a scholarship to read chemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford. He gained a second-class degree in natural…

Gwynn, Arthur Montagu

Gwynn, Arthur Montagu (1908–2008), medical doctor, naturalist, explorer and editor, was born 5 August 1908 in the family home, St Dymphna's, Clontarf, Dublin, second eldest of three sons and two daughters of Edward John Gwynn (qv),…

Hackett, Felix Edward

Hackett, Felix Edward (1882–1970), physicist, was born 15 August 1882 in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, second son among five sons and three daughters of Daniel Hackett and Jeanie Hackett (née Walsh). He was a student at UCD, and edited the…

Haliday, Alexander Henry

Haliday, Alexander Henry (1806–70), naturalist, was born 21 November 1806 at Holywood, Co. Down, the eldest child of William Haliday (1763–1838), a well-known Belfast physician and a founding subscriber of the Belfast Academical Institute, and his wife Marian (née Webster).…

Hallissy, Timothy

Hallissy, Timothy (1869–1958), geologist, was born 8 November 1869 in Garrycloyne, Blarney, Co. Cork, eldest among three sons and two daughters of John Hallissy, tenant farmer, and his first wife Mary Hallissy (née O'Shea). His father had tenancy (1855) of 186 acres, of which he got…

Hamilton, Gerard Edwin Hamilton Barrett-

Hamilton, Gerard Edwin Hamilton Barrett- (1871–1913), zoologist, was born in India of an Irish father, Capt. Samuel Barrett of Dublin, and Laura Barrett (née Thomson) of York, England. The family returned to Ireland to live at Kilmanock, Co. Wexford, when he was aged three years. He…

Hamilton, Hugh

Hamilton, Hugh (1729–1805), Church of Ireland bishop and scientist, was born 26 March 1729 at Knock, Co. Dublin, eldest of four sons of Alexander Hamilton, attorney and later MP for Killyleagh (1739–60), and his wife Isabella, a Maxwell of Finnebrogue, Co. Down; there were also two…

Hamilton, James Archibald

Hamilton, James Archibald (1747–1815), Church of Ireland clergyman and astronomer, was born at Athlone, Co. Westmeath, son of Col. Gustavus Hamilton and Jane Hamilton (née Giverdot). From 1754 he attended the Royal School at Armagh before entering…

Hamilton, Sir William Rowan

Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805–65), mathematician, was born on the night of 3–4 August 1805 (the time was recorded as midnight) at his father's house in Dominick Street, Dublin. He was the second of five children who survived infancy, and the only son, of Archibald Hamilton (…

Hamilton, William

Hamilton, William (1755–97), cleric and geologist, was born 16 December 1755 in Derry city, son of John Hamilton, merchant, and Elizabeth Hamilton (née Hope). He entered Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1771 and had a distinguished academic career. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1776,…

Hardman, Edward Townley

Hardman, Edward Townley (1845–87), geologist in Ireland and Australia, was born 6 April 1845 in Drogheda, Co. Louth, into a well connected merchant family; a forebear had been MP for Drogheda (1797–1800, 1801–6). His father's name is not known. He could have been the Edward Townley…

Hart, Henry Chichester

Hart, Henry Chichester (1847–1908), naturalist and literary scholar, was born 29 July 1847 in Glenvar, Raheny, Dublin, second son of Andrew Searle Hart (qv) and Frances Hart (née MacDougall). His father's family was of Co.…

Hartley, Sir Walter Noel

Hartley, Sir Walter Noel (1846–1913), scientist, was born 3 February 1846 at Lichfield, Staffordshire, son of Thomas Hartley, portrait painter, who exhibited (1820–60) at the Royal Academy in London, and Caroline Hartley (née Lockwood). Walter Hartley appears to have been an only…

Hart, Sir Andrew Searle

Hart, Sir Andrew Searle (1811–90), mathematician, was born 14 March 1811, youngest of five sons of the Rev. George Vaughan Hart (d. 1836), rector of Castlebar, Co. Mayo, and his wife, Maria Murray (née Hume), daughter of John Hume, dean of Derry. She inherited Glenalla, Co.…

Harvey, Joshua Reuben

Harvey, Joshua Reuben (1804–87), physician and naturalist, was born in Cork, into a quaker family, son of Reuben Harvey (1770–1830), American consul in Cork, and Mary Harvey (née Fennell). He entered TCD, graduating…

Harvey, William Henry

Harvey, William Henry (1811–66), botanist, phycologist, and systematist, was born 5 February 1811 at Summerville, Limerick city, youngest of eleven children of Joseph Massey Harvey, a quaker merchant, and Rebecca Harvey (neé Mark), also of that city. He was educated at Newtown,…