Baker, Col. Henry (c.1640–1689), governor of Londonderry, was a lieutenant in the Irish army after the restoration; details of his parents are not known. On being dismissed during the administration of the earl of Tyrconnell (qv…
Wauchope, Piers
Butler, Pierce (Piers)
Butler, Pierce (Piers) (1652–1740), 3rd Viscount Galmoy and Jacobite earl of Newcastle, army officer, was born 21 March 1652, the son of Edward, 2nd Viscount Galmoy (c.1627–1667), and Eleanor, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Whyte of Leixlip, Co. Kildare. He succeeded to the…
Churchill, John
Churchill, John (1650–1722), 1st duke of Marlborough and general, was born in Devon, son of Sir Winston Churchill (qv), a commissioner of the 1662–3 court of claims, and educated at St Paul's School. Commissioned (1667) as an…
Custume, Sergeant
Custume, Sergeant (fl. 1691), hero of the siege of Athlone, was probably born in Ireland but may have been Scottish. On 28 June 1691 the Irish were defending western Athlone against the Williamite army. Between them lay the Shannon and the medieval bridge, the most…