Hussey, Samuel Murray
Hussey, Samuel Murray (1824–1913), land agent, was born at Bath, Somerset, on 17 December 1824, the fifth son in the family of five sons and four daughters of Peter Bodkin Hussey of Farrinakilla, near Dingle, Co. Kerry, and his wife Mary (d. 1857), daughter of Robert Hickson of the…...
Jackson, Robert Wyse
Jackson, Robert Wyse (1908–76), clergyman, writer, and artist, was born 12 July 1908 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, only son of Richard Jackson, a bank manager from Killinane, Co. Kildare, and Belinda Hester Jackson (née Sherlock), of Bandon, Co. Cork. Educated at the Abbey School, Co…...
Jellett, Mainie
Jellett, Mainie (1897–1944), artist, was born Mary Harriet Jellett on 29 April 1897 into a protestant family at 37 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, the eldest of four daughters of William Morgan Jellett, a barrister, and Janet Jellett (née Stokes). Her father, the son of…...
Jones, Nancy (Esperanca) Wynne-
Jones, Nancy (Esperanca) Wynne- (1922–2006), painter, was born 10 December 1922 at Penmaenucha, Dolgellau, north Wales, youngest child among two sons and one daughter of Charles Llewellyn Wynne-Jones (c.1891–1974), landowner, and his wife Sybil Mary Gella (née Scott) (c…...
Jones, William Bence-
Jones, William Bence- (1812–82), improving landlord and essayist, was born 5 October 1812 in Beccles, Suffolk, eldest son of William Jones (1776–1843), lieutenant-colonel, 5th Dragoon Guards, and his wife Matilda (d. 1869), daughter of the Rev. Bence Bence of Thorington Hall,…...
Kavanagh, Lady Harriet Margaret
Kavanagh, Lady Harriet Margaret (1800–85), artist, traveller, and antiquarian, was second daughter among three sons and four daughters of Richard Le Poer Trench (qv), later 2nd earl of Clancarty, and Henrietta Margaret Le Poer Trench…...
Kavanagh, Walter MacMorrough
Kavanagh, Walter MacMorrough (1856–1922), landlord, politician, and financial expert, was born at Borris House, Co. Carlow, on 14 January 1856, the eldest son of Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh (qv) and his wife, Frances Mary…...
Keane, Sir John
Keane, Sir John (1873–1956), 5th baronet, landowner, businessman, and Irish Free State senator, was born 3 June 1873, the son of Sir Richard Keane, 4th baronet, and his wife, Adelaide Keane (née Vance). The Keane baronetcy was conferred in 1801; in the late nineteenth century the…...
Kellett, Iris
Kellett, Iris (1926–2011), showjumper and horse trainer, was born on 8 January 1926 in Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, the only child of Thomas Kellett, of Mespil Road, Ballsbridge, and his wife Julia (née Maron). Her father was a veterinary surgeon who, after service as a British army…...
Kelly, Denis Joseph
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Kelly, Oisín
Kelly, Oisín (1915–81), sculptor, was born Austin Ernest Kelly on 17 May 1915 in James Street, Dublin, elder of two children and only son of William Kelly, schoolteacher, and Elizabeth Kelly (née McLean). He attended St James's National School, where his father was headmaster, and later…...
Kennedy, John Pitt
Kennedy, John Pitt (1796–1879), army officer and agriculturist, was born 8 May 1796 at Donagh, Co. Donegal, fourth son of John Pitt Kennedy, rector of Donagh and later Balteagh, Co. Londonderry, and Mary Kennedy (née Cary). Educated at the Foyle Academy, Derry, he entered the…...
Kennedy, Percy William (‘Darby’)
Kennedy, Percy William (‘Darby’) (1914–2016), aviator and founder of Weston aerodrome, was born on 11 June 1914 in Barronrath, Straffan, Co. Kildare, one of nine children, to Edward ‘Cub’ Kennedy, breeder of racehorses (including the famous stallion the Tetrarch), and his wife Beryl…...
Kinahan, Charles Henry Grierson
Kinahan, Charles Henry Grierson (1915–95), businessman and politician, was born 10 July 1915 in Belfast, eldest son of Henry Kinahan, Belfast businessman, and his wife Ula, daughter of the Rt Rev. C. T .P. Grierson (1857–1935), bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore. His brother…...
King, Cecil
King, Cecil (1921–86), painter and collector, was born 22 February 1921 at Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, son of Henry King, businessman, of Rathdrum, and Susan King (née Crowe). He was educated at the Church of Ireland Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Mountjoy School, Dublin (1936–9).…...
King, Cecil Harmsworth
King, Cecil Harmsworth (1901–87), publisher, was born 20 February 1901 at Poynter's Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England (home of his grandmother, Geraldine Harmsworth (qv)), second son and fifth child among seven children of…...
King, Sir Abraham Bradley
King, Sir Abraham Bradley (1774–1838), 1st baronet, businessman and civic politician, was born 31 March 1774 in Dublin, fifth child and second son of Charles King, army officer from a Fermanagh gentry family dating back to the plantation, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of…...
Kingston, Richard Samuel
Kingston, Richard Samuel (1922–2003), painter, was born 22 March 1922 at Leabeg, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, one of five children of (Thomas) George Kingston, farmer and horse schooler, originally from Clonakilty, Co. Cork, and his wife Elizabeth (née Berry). In the early 1930s his…...
Kirk, Joseph Robinson
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Kirk, William Boyton
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Knox, Thomas
Knox, Thomas (c.1641–1728), merchant, landowner, and privy councillor, was eldest among three sons and two daughters of Thomas Knox (d. 1685), merchant and burgess of Glasgow, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Spang, a burgess of Glasgow of Danish origin. He…...
Lambert, (Charles) Gordon
Lambert, (Charles) Gordon (1919–2005), businessman and art collector, was born 9 April 1919 in the family home at Highfield Road, Rathmines, Dublin, the youngest of four sons of Bob (Robert James Hamilton) Lambert (qv), veterinarian and renowned cricketer, and his…...
Lane, Sir Hugh Percy
Lane, Sir Hugh Percy (1875–1915), art dealer and collector, was born 9 November 1875 at Ballybrack, Co. Cork, third eldest among five sons and one daughter of the Rev. James Willliam Lane, of Cork, and Frances Adelaide Lane (née Persse), of Roxborough, Co. Galway. Two other daughters…...
La Touche, David Digues I
La Touche, David Digues I (1671–1745), soldier and businessman, was born 15 November 1671, fourth son among six sons and three daughters of Denis Digues, seigneur de la Touche et de la Motte, nobleman, and his second wife Madeleine Digues (née Deplanche) of Château de la Touche,…...
La Touche, David II
La Touche, David II (1703–1785), banker, was born on 31 December 1703, eldest among two sons and two daughters of David La Touche I (qv), soldier and businessman, and Judith La Touche (née Biard) of Dublin city. His full…...