Childers, Erskine Barton
Childers, Erskine Barton (1929–96), broadcaster, writer, and United Nations official, was born 11 March 1929 in Dublin, eldest of two sons and four daughters of Erskine Hamilton Childers (qv), politician, and Ruth Childers (…...
Childers, Margaret Mary ('Rita')
Childers, Margaret Mary ('Rita') (1915–2010), civil servant and community activist, was born on 25 February 1915 in the family home at Elgin Road, Dublin, the sixth of eight children of Joseph Dudley , a solicitor, and his wife Marcella (née Vereker). Both parents were from well-…...
Childers, (Robert) Erskine
Childers, (Robert) Erskine (1870–1922), British civil servant, author, and Sinn Féin propagandist, was born 25 June 1870 in London, second son among five children of Robert Caesar Childers, private secretary to the governor of Ceylon and scholar of Buddhism, and Anna Henrietta Childers…...
Christie, Michael
Christie, Michael (1887–1971), civil servant, was born 31 March 1887 in Dublin, the only son among three children of Patrick Christie, originally of Rathmolyon, Co. Meath, labourer in Guinness's brewery, and Rose Christie (née Butler), originally of Summerhill, Co. Meath. The…...
Clancy, John
Clancy, John (1844–1915), republican and local government official, was born in Carricknagat, Co. Sligo, son of John Clancy, customs official; nothing is known of his mother. Educated locally, in the early 1860s he moved to Dublin where he worked as a printer with the Irish…...
Clandillon, Seamus (‘Clan’)
Clandillon, Seamus (‘Clan’) (1878–1944), musician, civil servant, and first director of radio broadcasting at 2RN, was born 6 June 1878 near Gort, Co. Galway, son of William A. Clandillon, national…...
Clark, Henry Maitland
Clark, Henry Maitland (1929–2012), politician, colonial administrator and businessman, was born on 11 April 1929 in Co. Londonderry, the middle of three children (two boys and a girl) of Henry ('Harry') Francis Clark and his wife Sybil Emily (née Stuart); the family resided in Rockwood…...
Clark, Sir Ernest
Clark, Sir Ernest (1864–1951), civil servant, was born 13 April 1864, youngest child among three sons and two daughters of Samuel Henry Clark, state schoolmaster, and Anne Clark (née Seaver). The family lived at 64 St James's Place, Plumstead, Kent, England. As a teenager Clark…...
Clements, Henry Theophilus
Clements, Henry Theophilus (1734–95), financial administrator and MP, was second son of Nathaniel Clements (qv), treasury official and MP, and his wife Hannah, daughter of the Rev. William Gore, dean of Down. The younger brother of…...
Clements, Nathaniel
Clements, Nathaniel (1705–77), treasury official, property developer, architect, and MP, was third of four surviving sons of Robert Clements (1664–1722), landowner, of Rathkenny, Co. Cavan, and Abbotstown, Co. Dublin, and his wife Elizabeth (d. 1742), daughter of…...
Clere, Nicholas de
Clere, Nicholas de (d. c.1303), treasurer of the Irish exchequer, seems to have entered royal service in 1277 when he was granted the prebend of the king's chapel in the castle of Nottingham. His first connection with Ireland came in 1284 when he was appointed custodian of…...
Cliffe, John
Cliffe, John (d. 1691), administrator, was the son of Anthony Cliffe of Westminster. He was secretary to the commissioners dispatched to Ulster by the parliament of England in 1645–7. In 1650–51 he acted to secretary to Henry Ireton (qv),…...
Clifford, Sir Conyers
Clifford, Sir Conyers (d. 1599), soldier and administrator, was the eldest son of George Clifford and Ursula Clifford (née Finch) of Bobbing Court, Kent. He distinguished himself under the command of the earl of Essex (qv) in the…...
Cockburn, Sir George
Cockburn, Sir George (1764–1847), soldier, traveller, writer, and antiquary, was born 18 February 1764 in Dublin, only child of George Cockburn (d. 1775), a Scottish businessman who settled in Ireland in 1739 and married Ann (d. 1769), second of two children of Charles Caldwell,…...
Codling, Arthur Dean (‘Art’)
Codling, Arthur Dean (‘Art’) (1876–1950), civil servant, was born 30 November 1876 at Lytham, Lancashire, England, eldest son and second among four children of William Eggitt Codling, Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Isabella Codling (née Dean). He was educated at Mr Leathley's…...
Coffey, Æneas
Coffey, Æneas (c.1780–1852), excise official and inventor, was the son of Andrew Coffey and his wife, daughter of a Capt. Ryan who died of wounds received during the arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (qv). Andrew Coffey…...
Coffey, Hugh Diarmid James
Coffey, Hugh Diarmid James (1888–1964), author and public servant, was born 24 December 1888 in Dublin, the only child of George Coffey (qv) (d. 1916) and his wife Jane Sophia Frances (d. 1921), daughter of Sir George Burdett L'Estrange. The…...
Coghill, Marmaduke
Coghill, Marmaduke (1673–1739), chancellor of the exchequer, was born 28 December 1673, elder of two sons of Sir John Coghill of Co. Dublin, formerly of Coghill Hall, Yorkshire, England, and Hester Coghill (née Cramer); there were also two sisters. Sir John, master in chancery…...
Colbert, John Patrick
Colbert, John Patrick (1898–1975), public servant and economist, was born 12 February 1898, the son of William Colbert JP, a farmer of Templeathea, Co. Limerick, and Norah Colbert (née Danaher). Educated at Rockwell College, near Cashel,…...
Colby, Thomas Frederick
Colby, Thomas Frederick (1784–1852), engineer and administrator, was born 1 September 1784 at Rochester, Kent, England, eldest child of Maj. Thomas Colby (Royal Marines) of south Wales, and Cornelia Colby (née Hadden), both of military families. Educated at Northfleet, Kent, and the…...
Cole, Sir (Galbraith) Lowry
Cole, Sir (Galbraith) Lowry (1772–1842), army officer and colonial governor, was born in Dublin on 1 May 1772, second son in the family of five sons and five daughters of William Willoughby Cole (1736–1803), 1st earl of Enniskillen, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Galbraith Lowry…...
Colgan, Nathaniel
Colgan, Nathaniel (1851–1919), botanist, marine biologist, and traveller, was born 28 May 1851 in Dublin. The identity of his parents is not known with certainty, though they may have been Nathaniel Watson Colgan and Letitia Phair, who married in Dublin in 1846. Colgan was educated…...
Colleary, (James) Gordon
Colleary, (James) Gordon (1941–2014), travel entrepreneur and newspaper publisher, was born on 7 March 1941 in Tuam, Co. Galway, the eldest of five children of Gerald Francis Calleary, headmaster of Tuam Vocational School, and his wife Josephine Margaret Calleary (née Gordon). (The…...
Collins, Jerome James
Collins, Jerome James (1841–81) meteorologist, Arctic explorer, and founder of Clan na Gael, was born 17 October 1841 in Cork city, the son of Mark Collins, a lime and saltworks owner of South Main Street, Cork, and his wife Ellen (née Ryan). He attended St Vincent's Seminary,…...
Collins, John
Collins, John (1883–1954), civil servant, was born 29 May 1883 in Waterford city, one of four children of John Collins, borough constable, and Bridget Collins (née Quinlan), of the City Hall, Waterford. Educated at Mount Sion CBS,…...