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Martin, James Purdon (1893–1984), physician, was born 11 June 1893 at Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, the son of Samuel Martin, agent, and Georgina Martin (née Purdon). Educated at the Belfast Royal Academical Institution, he entered QUB…

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McDowel, Ephraim (1798–1835), surgeon, was born 24 June 1798 at 66 Eccles Street, Dublin, son of the Rev. Benjamin McDowell (qv), a presbyterian clergyman, and Frances McDowell (née Carroll). He was apprenticed as a surgeon to…

McGrath, Sir Joseph (1858–1923), first registrar of the NUI, was born 25 August 1858 at Main Street, Bagnelstown, Co. Carlow, the eldest of the four sons of Pierce McGrath and Alicia (née Hughes); he may also have had sisters. Aged fourteen he entered the Jesuit school at Tullabeg…

Meade, Henry Sords (1884–1952), surgeon, was born in December 1884 in Amoy, South China, the son of Henry John Meade and his wife Mary Josephine Meade. At the time of his birth the family was based in China, where his father worked in the imperial civil service, but they returned…

Millin, Terence John (1903–80), urologist, was born 9 January 1903 at Helen's Bay, near Bangor, Co. Down, the son of Samuel Shannon Millin, barrister, and Ella Millin (née Morton) of Scotland. After his father became deaf around 1905 the family moved to 22 St Kevin's Park, Rathmines…

Mitchell, David Michael (1909–95), physician, was born 3 June 1909 in Dublin, the son of David William Mitchell, a businessman who ran a furnishings and antiques shop, Hodges & Son, on Aston Quay, and his wife, Frances Elizabeth Mitchell (née Kirby). The family was descended…

Moore, Sir Norman (1847–1922), 1st baronet, pathologist and medical historian, was born 8 January 1847 at Higher Broughton, Manchester, only son of Robert Ross Rowan Moore (qv), political economist, and his wife Rebecca (1819–1905…

Murnaghan, Francis Dominic (1893–1976), mathematician, was born 4 August 1893 at Omagh, Co. Tyrone, the seventh child of nine born to George Murnaghan (qv), nationalist MP at Westminster for Mid-Tyrone, and Angela Murnaghan (née…

Murnaghan, Maurice Francis (1917–82), physiologist and pharmacologist, was born 1917 in Dublin, second youngest child among three sons and two daughters of Daniel Murnaghan, general practitioner (son of George Murnaghan (qv)), and…

Nelson, Joseph (1840–1910), ophthalmic surgeon, was born at Downpatrick, one of nine children of Samuel Craig Nelson, a prominent minister in the unitarian church and a fluent Irish speaker, and Mary Cleland Nelson (née McCaw). He entered QCB…

O'Brien, Matthew (1814–55), mathematician, was born at Ennis, Co. Clare, the son of Matthew O'Brien, a doctor. Educated initially by a private tutor, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, in July 1830 at the age of sixteen, but in November 1834 transferred to Gonville and Caius…

O'Connor, Denis Charles (1808–88), physician, was born in Bandon, Co. Cork, the son of Denis O'Connor, a shoemaker. Educated locally at one of the schools endowed by the duke of Devonshire, he entered TCD on 18 May 1826, aged nineteen.…

O'Connor, James Malachy (1886–1974), physiologist, was born in Limerick on 9 February 1886, the son of Michael Roderick O'Connor, visiting physician at Barrington's Hospital, and Kathleen O'Connor (née Bowler). He was educated at the Crescent College, Limerick, and then entered…

O'Sullivan, Cornelius (1841–1907), brewer's chemist, was born 20 December 1841 at Bandon, Co. Cork, one of seven children (three boys and four girls) of James O'Sullivan, merchant, and his wife Elizabeth (née Morgan). He attended Denny Holland's private primary school in Bandon,…

Overend, Letitia Lily Anne Letham (1880–1977), philanthropist and motor enthusiast, was born 15 July 1880 at 11 Herbert Road, Dublin, the elder daughter of Trevor T. L. Overend, a successful solicitor, and Bessie Anna Overend (née Butler), better known as Lily. She had one sister,…

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Parsons, Alfred Robert (1864–1952), physician, was born 23 September 1864 in Victoria Place, Athlone, son of John Parsons, bootmaker, and Mary Parsons (née Leney). He was the second of seven children; he had three brothers (William, b. 1862; George Thomas, b. 1868; and Charles Frederick…

Reilly, Joseph (1889–1965), chemist, was born 3 September 1889 at 11 Creighton Street, Dublin, the son of Joseph Reilly, a policeman, from Longford, and Margaret Reilly (née Fulham), from Galway. His father died before Joseph's birth. Educated at the Christian Brothers’ School,…

Roberts, Michael (1817–82), mathematician, was the eldest son of Captain Michael Roberts, of Kilmoney Abbey near Carrigaline, Co. Cork, and Elizabeth Roberts (née Townsend Stewart). His twin brother was William Roberts (1817–83), also a mathematician and scholar and fellow of…

Ronalds, Edmund (Edmond) (1819–89), chemist and first professor of chemistry at QCG, was born in Canonbury Square, London, the son of Edmund Ronalds (1790–1874), merchant, and his wife, Eliza (née Anderson). His paternal uncle, Sir…

Rowney, Thomas Henry (1817–93), chemist and geologist, was born in London, one of at least three sons of George Rowney (1792–1870), of the well-known firm of artist's colourmen (George Rowney Company, later Daler–Rowney Ltd), and his wife, Esther (née Forster) (d. 1865). His father…

Russell, Matthew John (1874–1956), physician, was born 1 June 1874 in Kilross, Co. Tipperary, the son of John Russell, farmer, and his wife, Kate (née Dwyer). He had at least one brother, James, and one sister, Mary, both of whom joined religious orders. Matthew studied medicine…

Russell, Angela Gertrude (née Coyne) (1893–1991), physician and social reformer, was born 15 November 1893 in Tralee, Co. Kerry, the fourth daughter and seventh child among nine children of James Aloysius Coyne, an inspector of national schools, and Kathleen Mary Coyne (née Pitt).…

Ryan, Philomena Frances (Phyllis O'Kelly) (1895–1983), chemist, was born 28 February 1895, the youngest child of the seven girls and five boys of John Ryan (1844–1921), farmer, of Tomcoole, near Taghmon, Co. Wexford, and his wife, Elizabeth (‘Eliza’) (née Sutton) (1848–1930).…