Challoner (Chaloner, Challyner), John
Challoner (Chaloner, Challyner), John (c.1515–81), merchant and administrator, was second son of Roger Challoner (d. 1521), London alderman, and Margaret Challoner (née Middleton), both of Welsh ancestry. John, sometime auditor in English-occupied Calais, settled in…...
Chalmers, Sir Robert
Chalmers, Sir Robert (1858–1938), 1st Baron Chalmers , public servant, was born 18 August 1858 in London, only son of John Chalmers, gentleman, and Julia Chalmers (née Mackay). Educated at the City of London School, he studied classics at Oriel College, Oxford, later changing to…...
Chambers, John
Chambers, John (1754–1837), printer and United Irishman, was born in Dublin in January 1754, the son of a wine merchant and his wife, Elinor, daughter of Charles Carter of Chapelizod, Co. Dublin. Apprenticed to a printer by his widowed mother (1 July 1767), he was printing on his…...
Charlton (de Charleton, de Cherleton), Thomas
Charlton (de Charleton, de Cherleton), Thomas (d. 1344), bishop of Hereford and justiciar of Ireland, was son of Robert Charleton of Shropshire; his older brother was John Charleton, 1st lord of Powys. A clerk of the king, he received an MA,…...
Charlton, John
Charlton, John (d. 1353), lord of Powys, soldier, and administrator, was the son of Robert Charlton of Shropshire (d. 1300). He came into possession of his inheritance in 1306 and in 1307 acted as proxy for the men of Salop in the Carlisle parliament. He was a member of Edward II's…...
Chart, David Alfred
Chart, David Alfred (1878–1960), archivist and historian, was born on 13 August 1878 in the Lucknow cantonment in north-west India, the second child of David Chart, a colour sergeant with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry regiment who was originally from Betchworth, Surrey, and Mary…...
Chartres, John Smith
Chartres, John Smith (1862–1927), lawyer, civil servant, and diplomat, was born 5 October 1862 in Birkenhead, Wirrall, England, son of John Smith Chartres, staff surgeon in the British army, and formerly of 30 Great Charles St., Dublin, and Margaret Chartres (née Henry) of Clones,…...
Chedworth (Chaddesworth, Charworth, Cheddlewerth, Theddesden?), Thomas of
Chedworth (Chaddesworth, Charworth, Cheddlewerth, Theddesden?), Thomas of (d. 1311), official, justice, and archbishop elect of Dublin, derived his name from Chedworth in Gloucestershire. Styled ‘magister’, he first appears in Irish records in 1262 as ‘Thomas de Theddesden’, a…...
Chetwood, William Rufus
Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766), prompter, publisher, and author, was most probably born in England. Little is known of his early life, but his own accounts, and the fact that he wrote several seafaring adventures, indicate that he had travelled around the world as a young man,…...
Chichester, Arthur
Chichester, Arthur (1606–75), 1st earl of Donegall , soldier, and administrator, was born 16 June 1606, eldest son of Edward Chichester (brother of Arthur Chichester (qv) (1563–1625)) and his wife Anne (née Coplestone) of Devon. He…...
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, Basil
Clancy, Basil (1907–96), publisher, magazine editor, and journalist, was born Anthony Sebastian Clancy in Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, on 7 July 1907, the seventh of the twelve children of Patrick J. Clancy, JP (d. 1947), linen merchant and…...
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…...
Clarke, Desmond
Clarke, Desmond (1907–79), librarian, historian, and writer, was born 2 July 1907 in Dublin, eldest son of John Clarke and Marcella Clarke (née Shaw). His entire career was with the RDS library, which he joined as an assistant in 1925. In…...
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…...