Hegarty, Frank

Beechey, Richard Brydges (1808–95), artist, naval officer, and marine surveyor, was born 17 May 1808 in London, the youngest son of the noted portrait painter Sir William Beechey RA (1753–1839) and his second wife, Ann Phyllis…

Scott, Francis Leslie (‘Les’) (1928–2008), chemist, was born on 3 July 1928 in Cork, the son of Cyril Scott, supervisor in a shoe factory, and his wife Elizabeth (née Kenny), who worked in Thompson’s bakery shop in Cork. After attending North Monastery school in Cork, he entered…