Leared, Arthur
Leared, Arthur (1822–79), physician and traveller, was born in Wexford, son of Richard Leared, merchant. He graduated BA (1845), MB (1847), and MD (1860) from…...
Leech, William John
Leech, William John (1881–1968), painter, was born 10 April 1881 at 49 Rutland (latterly Parnell) Square, Dublin, the third among the five sons and a daughter of Henry Brougham Leech (1843–1921), chief registrar of deeds and regius professor of law at…...
Leeper, Richard Robert
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Leeson, Joseph
Leeson, Joseph (c.1701–1783), 1st earl of Milltown , landowner, patron of the arts, was one of six surviving children – and apparently the only surviving son – of Joseph Leeson (qv), brewer and property developer, and his wife…...
Lees, William Nassau
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Leslie, Sir John
Leslie, Sir John (1822–1916), 1st baronet, painter and politician, was born 16 December 1822 at Glaslough, Co. Monaghan, the second son in a family of three boys and four girls born to Colonel Charles Powell Leslie MP (d. 1831), and his second wife, Christina, daughter of George…...
Lhuyd (Lhwyd, Lloyd), Edward
Lhuyd (Lhwyd, Lloyd), Edward (1660?–1709), Celtic philologist and naturalist, was born c.1660 in Cardiganshire, Wales, or near Oswestry, Shropshire, the illegitimate son of Edward Lloyd of Llanvorda and Bridget Pryse, both from landowning families. Lhuyd entered Jesus College,…...
Long, Joseph John
Long, Joseph John (fl. 1891–1925), medical missionary, was the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman. After considering a missionary career overseas, in 1891 Long began work at the Dublin Medical Mission; this was an evangelical body which used the offer of free medical…...
Lucas, Charles
Lucas, Charles (1713–71), politician, physician, and writer, was born 16 September 1713, the younger son of Benjamin Lucas (d. c.1727) of the townland of Ballingaddy, Kilmanahan parish, Corcomroe, Co. Clare, and his wife, Mary (née Blood), also of Co. Clare. …...
Luce, John Victor
Luce, John Victor (1920–2011), classicist, was born on 21 May 1920 in Dublin, the elder of two sons of Arthur Aston Luce (qv), then professor of moral philosophy in TCD, and his wife Lilian Mary (née Thompson), a philosophy graduate…...
Lumsden, Sir John
Lumsden, Sir John (1869–1944), physician and founder of the St John's Ambulance Brigade in Ireland, was born 14 November 1869 at the Mall, Drogheda, the son of John Lumsden, bank manager, and Florence Isabella Groom Lumsden (née McKearn). Educated at the High School in Dublin and…...
Lynn, Kathleen
Lynn, Kathleen (1874–1955), medical practitioner and political activist, was born 28 January 1874 in Mullafarry, near Killala, Co. Mayo, second oldest of three daughters and one son of Robert Lynn, Church of Ireland clergyman, and Catherine Lynn (née Wynne) of Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo.…...
Lyons, Robert Spencer Dyer
Lyons, Robert Spencer Dyer (1826–86), surgeon and politician, was born 13 August 1826 in Cork city, son of Sir William Lyons, merchant and later mayor and high sheriff of Cork, and his wife Harriet, daughter of Robert Spencer Dyer of Kinsale, Co. Cork. His early education took…...
Macan, Sir Arthur Vernon
Macan, Sir Arthur Vernon (1843–1908), gynaecologist and obstetrician, was born 30 January 1843 at 9 Mountjoy Square, Dublin, eldest son of John Macan, QC, judge of the bankruptcy court, and Maria Macan (née Perrin), from Liverpool and of…...
Macan, Turner
Macan, Turner (1792–1836), soldier, linguist and translator, was born on 30 September 1792 at Kilbrogan, Bandon, Co. Cork, the second son of seven children (three sons and four daughters) of Robert Macan (1750–1808), originally of Carrive, Co. Armagh, and his wife Hannah (née…...
MacDermott, Martin
MacDermott, Martin (1823–1905), poet and architect, was born 8 April 1823 in Dublin, son of John MacDermott (1785–1842), prosperous merchant and perfumer, and Amélie Thérèse MacDermott (née Boshell), of French descent. Although educated as a catholic on Usher's Quay and later at a…...
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…...
MacManus, Henry
MacManus, Henry (c.1810–78), artist, was born probably in Monaghan. According to his close friend Charles Gavan Duffy (qv), he was left orphaned after his father, a catholic soldier, died with his regiment, and he was…...
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…...
Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland
Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland (1839–1919), classical scholar and provost of TCD, was born at Chapponnaire, near Vevey, Switzerland, on 26 February 1839, youngest of six children of Nathaniel Brindley Mahaffy, Church of Ireland clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth (née Pentland).…...
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…...
McGrath, Raymond Herbert
McGrath, Raymond Herbert (1903–77), architect, was born 7 March 1903 in Gladesville, near Sydney, Australia, second child among two sons and one daughter of Herbert Edgar McGrath, hospital clerk, and Edith Mary McGrath (née Sorrell). He had Irish ancestry on both sides of his…...
Milliken, (Millikin) Richard Alfred
Milliken, (Millikin) Richard Alfred (1767–1815), poet, painter, and dramatist, was born 8 September 1767, the second eldest of five children of Robert Milliken, of Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, and Elizabeth Milliken (née Battaley), of Wiltshire. Of Scottish quaker ancestry (though by…...
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…...