Bergin, John

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Hopkins, Edward (1675–1736), chief secretary, was a son of Richard Hopkins of Coventry and his wife, Mary, a daughter of Alderman Johnson. Richard Hopkins, a strong whig, sat for Coventry in the English house of commons in most parliaments between 1670 and 1700, and lodged the…

Hopkins, Ezekiel (1634–90), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry, was born 3 December 1634 at Crediton in Devon, second of three sons of John Hopkins, curate at a chapel of ease in Crediton and later rector of Pinhoe in the same county. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ school…

Hort, Josiah (1673–1751), archbishop of Tuam, was born 2 February 1673, the son of John Hort of Marshfield in Gloucestershire. He was educated at a grammar school in Bristol before attending a nonconformist academy in London (1690–95), where he is said to have excelled as a…

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Howard, Ralph (1638–1710), president of the College of Physicians, was the only son of John Howard and his wife, Dorothea, daughter and heir of Robert Hasells. John Howard, after some time spent in England, died there in 1643. His widow returned to Ireland with their son in 1655…

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Huntington, Robert (1637–1701), provost of TCD and bishop of Raphoe, was the second of four sons of Robert Huntington, curate of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. He was educated at Bristol grammar school and matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1654, graduating…

Jervis, Sir Humphrey (1630–1707/8), merchant and property developer, was second of three surviving sons of John Jervis of Ollerton, Shropshire, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of another John Jervis, of Chatkyll near Eccleshall, Staffordshire. He appears in…

Jocelyn, Robert (c.1688–1756), 1st Viscount Jocelyn , lord chancellor, was the only son of Thomas Jocelyn of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Bray of Westminster. In 1708 he was pupil in the office of the solicitor Charles Salkeld in…

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Jocelyn, Robert (1721–97), 1st earl of Roden, politician, seems to have been baptised in July 1721, the only son of Robert Jocelyn (qv), 1st Viscount Jocelyn, and his first wife, Charlotte Jocelyn (née Anderson). In 1740 he entered Exeter…

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Jones, Richard (1641–1712), 1st earl of Ranelagh , tax farmer, politician, and architect, was born 8 February 1641 in the house of his uncle, Viscount Dungarvan, in Long Acre, London, the only son of Arthur Jones and Katherine Jones…

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Langford, Sir Arthur (c.1652–1716), 2nd baronet and MP, was the eldest son of Sir Hercules Langford (1626–1683), 1st baronet, of Kilmackevett, Co. Antrim, and of Summerhill, Co. Meath, and his wife, Mary Langford (née Upton) (1629–c.1692). Sir Hercules, a…

Lauzun, Antonin Nompar de Caumont (1633–1723), comte de Lauzun , French commander of Jacobite forces in Ireland, was born in 1633 in France, into a family of impoverished Gascon nobility. He was the fourth of five sons (there were also four daughters) of Gabriel de Lauzun and his…

Lavit, Joseph (d. c.1728), merchant, appears to have settled in Cork around 1690. He was a huguenot, but nothing more is known of his life in France (where his name was probably Lavitte) except that when he arrived in Ireland he was apparently a man of little or no…

Leeson, Joseph (1660–1741), brewer and property speculator, was the youngest of four sons of Hugh Leeson and his wife, Rebecca Leeson, daughter of Richard Tighe, MP and mayor of Dublin. His father, who was born in Culworth, Northamptonshire, and who had been in the army, was…

Levinge, Sir Richard (1656–1724), lawyer and politician, was born 2 May 1656, at Leek in Staffordshire, the second son of Richard Levinge of Parwich in Derbyshire. His father was a barrister and recorder of the city of Chester while his mother, Anne, was a daughter of George Parker…

Lindsay, Robert (1679–1743), lawyer, was the elder of two sons of Robert Lindsay of Loughry, Co. Tyrone, and his wife, Anne Lindsay, daughter of John Morris of Bellville, Co. Tyrone. He succeeded to the Co. Tyrone estate of his father on the latter's death in 1691. He was educated…

Lundie (Lundy), Robert (d. 1710), army officer, governor of Derry at the start of the siege of 1689, was a Scottish captain serving in the earl of Dumbarton's regiment in 1679 in Tangier, where he was wounded in action (later receiving on that account a royal bounty of £80). He came…

Malone, James (d. 1721), printer and bookseller, was of obscure origin. A catholic, he was admitted free of the city of Dublin in 1672, and of the guild of stationers in 1676. He came to prominence under James II (qv); when the…