Macartney (McCartney), George
Macartney (McCartney), George (1626–91), merchant and customs official, was the only son of Bartholomew McCartney of Auchinleck, near Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and his wife Catherine, daughter of George Maxwell of Orchardton. George spelt his name as McCartney, but the form ‘…...
MacDonnell, John
MacDonnell, John (1796–1892), pioneer of surgical anaesthesia in Ireland, was born 11 February 1796 in Belfast into an ancient and distinguished family, younger son among two sons and one daughter of James MacDonnell (qv), an eminent…...
MacDonnell, Sir Alexander
MacDonnell, Sir Alexander (1794–1875), resident commissioner of national education, was born in Belfast, elder of two sons of James MacDonnell (qv), MD, of Belfast and Murlough, Co. Antrim, and…...
MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves
MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1814–81), judge and colonial governor, was born 3 September 1814 in Dublin, the eldest son of Rev. Richard MacDonnell (qv), provost of TCD (1852–67), and…...
MacMunn, Charles Alexander
MacMunn, Charles Alexander (1852–1911), doctor, army officer and physiologist, was born 11 April 1852 at Seafield House, Easky, Co. Sligo, the home of his father Dr James MacMunn, medical officer to the Easky dispensary and the Dromore West Union workhouse. After attending Dromore…...
Mainwaring, Sir Philip
Mainwaring, Sir Philip (1589–1661), secretary of state for Ireland and royalist, was the fourth son of Sir Randle Mainwaring, of Over Peover, Cheshire, and his wife Margaret Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire. In 1609 he entered Gray's Inn and on 29 August 1610 matriculated from…...
Marsden, Alexander
Marsden, Alexander (1761–1834), barrister, East India Company agent, and government official, was born in Dublin, probably in October 1761 – he was baptised at St Michan's, Dublin, on 17 October – the youngest of the sixteen children of John Marsden (1716?–1801) and his second…...
Mason, William Shaw
Mason, William Shaw (c.1774–1853), administrator and statistician, was born in 1774 or 1775 in Dublin, where his father, Henry Mason, was a tax official; nothing is known of his mother. It is not known if he was related to the Monck Masons, his contemporaries. He was…...
McConnell, Adams Andrew
McConnell, Adams Andrew (1884–1972), neurosurgeon, was born 2 June 1884 in Belfast, second son and middle child among three children of Dr Andrew McConnell (fl. 1869–1910) and Margaret McConnell (née Adams). He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast,…...
McCormack, Percy (Percival Davis)
McCormack, Percy (Percival Davis) (1929–2015), nuclear scientist, rocket engineer, pilot and physician, was born 23 October 1929 at the family home at 5 Garville Road, Rathgar, Dublin, the eldest of three children (he had a sister, Marion, and a brother, John) born to Thomas Henry…...
McDonnell, Sir Schomberg Kerr
McDonnell, Sir Schomberg Kerr (1861–1915), civil servant and private secretary to the British prime minister, was born 22 March 1861 at Glenarm Castle, Co. Antrim, fifth son of Mark McDonnell, 5th earl of Antrim, and his wife, Jane Emma Hannah McDonnell (née Macan). Educated at…...
Meredith, James Creed
Meredith, James Creed (1875–1942), judge of the supreme court and writer, was born in Dublin, son of Sir James Creed Meredith, secretary of the Royal University of Ireland from 1880 to 1909, and his third wife, Nellie (née Graves). He had three brothers and two sisters. He began…...
Methold (Methwold), Sir William
Methold (Methwold), Sir William (c.1560–1620), chief baron of the exchequer and chief justice of the king's bench, was eldest son of William Methold of Rushworth and South Pickenham, Norfolk, England, and his wife Susanna, daughter of George Alington of Swinhope,…...
Mitchell, David Michael
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…...
Molyneux (Molinel), Thomas
Molyneux (Molinel), Thomas (1531–97), administrator, was born in Calais, France, a member of the English community there; nothing more is known of his parents. An only child, he was orphaned at an early age and reared by John Brishin, an alderman of Calais. Following the surrender…...
Molyneux, Sir Thomas
Molyneux, Sir Thomas (1661–1733), physician, natural historian, and antiquarian, was born 14 April 1661, near Gormond's (Ormond, Wormwood) Gate on Cook St., Dublin, second son among five sons and two daughters of Samuel Molyneux (d. 1693), lawyer, landowner, and army captain, and his…...
Monck, Charles Stanley
Monck, Charles Stanley (1819–94), 4th Viscount Monck , first Canadian governor-general, church temporalities commissioner, and MP, was the eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, third Viscount Monck (second brother of the earl of Rathdowne, second…...
Monck, William Henry Stanley
Monck, William Henry Stanley (1839–1915), philosopher and astronomer, was born 21 April 1839 at Skeirke, Queen's Co. (Laois), third son of Thomas Stanley Monck, curate of Skeirke 1829–50, and Lydia Elinor Monck (née Kennedy). The family moved (1850) to Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny,…...
Montgomery, (William) Eric (Wolfe)
Montgomery, (William) Eric (Wolfe) (1916—2003), civil servant and pioneer of the study of Scotch-Irish folk history, was born 19 April 1916 in Moy, Co. Tyrone, son of John Montgomery, a methodist minister, who was president of the Methodist Church in Ireland in 1952, and of his…...
Montgomery, William Fetherston-Haugh
Montgomery, William Fetherston-Haugh (c.1797–1859), doctor, was born in Dublin, son of Leslie Montgomery; other family details are unknown. He graduated BA (1822), MA,…...
Moore, Georgina (Sister Mary Clare)
Moore, Georgina (Sister Mary Clare) (1814–74), Sister of Mercy, foundress, Crimean war nurse, and teacher, was born 20 March 1814 in the Church of Ireland parish of St Ann's, Dublin, youngest among three children (one son and two daughters) of George and Catherine Moore, both…...
Moore, James
Moore, James (1819–83), surgeon and artist, was born March 1819 in Belfast, son of David Moore, RN (who was appointed fleet surgeon by Nelson (1803) as a reward for distinguished service, and later practised in Belfast), and Margarita Moore (née…...
Moore, Sir John William
Moore, Sir John William (1845–1937), physician and editor, was born 23 October 1845, son of Dr William Daniel Moore (1813–71) and Catherine Mary Moore (née Monserrat), who then lived at 7 South Anne St., Dublin, moving later to 40 Fitzwilliam Square West. Christopher Moore, his…...
Moryson, Fynes
Moryson, Fynes (1566–1630), secretary to Lord Mountjoy and writer on Ireland, was third surviving son of Thomas Moryson (d. 1591), of Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England, clerk of the pipe and MP (for Great Grimsby in the parliaments of 1572, 1584, 1586, and 1588–9), and his wife…...
Moryson (Morrison), Richard
Moryson (Morrison), Richard (c.1571–1625/8?), soldier and administrator, was fifth son of Thomas Moryson (d. 1591), of Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England, clerk of the pipe, and his wife Elizabeth (d. 1587), daughter of Thomas Moigue, of Willingham, Lincolnshire. In 1585…...