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Barry, Judy
Stanyhurst, James
Stanyhurst, James (1522–73), lawyer, recorder of Dublin, and speaker of the Irish house of commons, was son of Nicholas Stanyhurst (d. 1554), mayor of Dublin (1543), city treasurer, and alderman; details of his mother are not known. The Stanyhursts were a prominent Co. Dublin family…
St John, Oliver
St John, Oliver (1559–1630), Viscount Grandison and Baron Tregoz, lord deputy of Ireland, was second son of Nicholas St John of Liddiard-Tregoze, Wiltshire, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire. He was educated at Trinity College,…
Stukeley (Stucley), Thomas
Stukeley (Stucley), Thomas (c.1525–78), soldier and adventurer, was third among five sons of Sir Hugh Stukeley (c.1495–1578) of Affeton, near Ilfracombe, Devon, and his wife, Jane, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard. A persistent rumour had it that Henry VIII was his…
White, Rowland
White, Rowland (d. 1572), Anglo-Irish reformer, was the son of Baron White of the Dufferin in north-east Ulster, which the family was forced to abandon when it came under attack from the Scots and the local Gaelic chieftains early in the sixteenth century. Nothing is known of…
Wolfe, David
Wolfe, David (1528–c.1578), leader of the second Jesuit mission to Ireland, was born in Limerick. His command of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese strongly suggests that he was educated on the Continent, but he is first recorded as dean of the diocesan chapter in Limerick…