Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague
Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague (1878–1931), painter, was born 27 November 1878 at Oriel, Grove Avenue, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, youngest among four sons and two daughters of Arthur Herbert Orpen (1830–1926), solicitor, and Anne Orpen (née Caulfeild) (d. 1912), eldest daughter of…...
Osborne, Jonathan
Osborne, Jonathan (1794–1864), physician, was born in Cullenswood House, near Ranelagh, Dublin, son of William Osborne, jeweller, and his wife Kezia (née Binns), daughter of John Binns (qv). He was educated by the Moravians before graduating…...
Ouseley, Sir Gore
Ouseley, Sir Gore (1770–1844), diplomat and orientalist, was born 24 June 1770 at Limerick, second son of Capt. Ralph Ouseley, soldier, and his first wife, Elizabeth (née Holland). Educated at home with his brother, William, and his cousin,…...
Pantridge, Frank (James Francis)
Pantridge, Frank (James Francis) (1916–2004), pioneering cardiologist, was born 3 October 1916 in Sion Hill, a farm on the southern outskirts of Hillsborough, Co. Down, son of Robert James Pantridge (d. 1927), and his wife Elizabeth (née McCandless). Frank had at least a sister and a…...
Parke, Thomas Heazle
Parke, Thomas Heazle (1857–93), army surgeon and African traveller, was born 27 November 1857 at Clogher House, Kilmore, Co. Roscommon, second son among ten children of William Parke, a well-to-do farmer, and Henrietta Parke (née Holmes). His ancestors were of Kentish stock. Educated…...
Parrot (Parrat), William
Parrot (Parrat), William (fl. 1622–42), builder of St Columb's cathedral, Londonderry, is first mentioned in September 1622 as a pikeman mustered for the defence of the town of Coleraine. In November 1627 he went to England carrying a letter from the 1st earl of…...
Perceval, Robert
Perceval, Robert (1756–1839), physician, chemist, traveller, and founding member of the RIA, was born 30 September 1756 in Dublin, third and youngest son of William Perceval, barrister, and his second wife, Elizabeth Perceval (née Ward; d.…...
Percy, Thomas
Percy, Thomas (1729–1811), bishop of Dromore, poet, and scholar, was born 13 April 1729 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, son of Arthur Piercy or Pearcy, grocer, and his wife Jane (née Nott); there was at least one other son. Thomas was educated at the local grammar school, and…...
Peters, Matthew William
Peters, Matthew William (1741/2–1814), painter and clergyman, was probably born at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, one of three children of Matthew Peters (1711–c.1776), a garden designer and agricultural writer, of Belfast, and Elizabeth Peters (née Younge), a…...
Petrie, George
Petrie, George (1790–1866), artist, antiquary and collector of Irish traditional music, was born on 1 January 1790 (his gravestone has 1789) in Dame Street, Dublin, the only child of James Petrie, portrait painter, of Dublin, and Elizabeth Petrie (née Simpson) of Edinburgh, Scotland.…...
Plunket, Katharine
Plunket, Katharine (1820–1932), botanical and landscape painter, was born 22 November 1820 at Kilsaran rectory, Co. Louth, the eldest of five daughters of Thomas Span Plunket (qv) (1792–1866), protestant curate of the parish,…...
Pollen, John Hungerford
Pollen, John Hungerford (1820–1902), architect, artist, and author, was born 19 November 1820 in London, second son of Richard Pollen, barrister, and his wife Anne, daughter of Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Educated at Durham House (1829–33) and Eton (1833–8), in May 1838 he…...
Pooley, Thomas
Pooley, Thomas (c.1644–1723), artist and politician, was born near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, one of nine children (four sons and five daughters) of Thomas Pooley, attorney, and his wife, Mary. In 1652 the family moved to Dublin, where Pooley senior worked as an…...
Porter, Sir George Hornidge
Porter, Sir George Hornidge (1822–95), surgeon, was born 24 November 1822 at 15 Kildare St., Dublin, son of William Henry Porter, surgeon, and Jane Porter (née Hornidge). He was initially educated by private tutor before being indentured to the Dublin surgeon Josiah Smyly (November 1838…...
Preston, Thomas
Preston, Thomas (1860–1900), physicist, was born 23 July 1860 at Ballyhagan, Kilmore, Co. Armagh, youngest among three sons of Abraham Dawson Preston, gentleman farmer, and his wife Anne (née Hall), and was educated at Armagh Royal School and …...
Price, Dorothy Stopford-
Price, Dorothy Stopford- (1890–1954), paediatrician, was born 9 September 1890 in Roebuck, Dublin, daughter of Jemmett Stopford, engineer, and Constance Stopford, whose father, Evory Kennedy, was master of the Rotunda Lying-In Hospital. Jemmett Stopford died from typhoid fever in 1902…...
Purefoy, Richard Dancer
Purefoy, Richard Dancer (1847–1919), obstetrician and gynaecologist, was born 4 August 1847 in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, fourth son of Dr Thomas Purefoy (fl. 1839–69) and Alla Maria Purefoy (née Dancer). He was educated in Bective College, Dublin, and Raphoe Royal…...
Purser, John Mallet
Purser, John Mallet (1839–1929), physiologist and professor of medicine, was born 8 November 1839 in Dublin, eldest son among nine sons and two daughters of Benjamin Purser (1815–98), corn merchant, and Anne Purser (née Mallet). He was educated in private schools before studying…...
Quain, Jones
Quain, Jones (1796–1865), surgeon, medical writer, and professor of anatomy, was born in November 1796 at Mallow, Co. Cork, eldest son of Richard Quain of Rathhealy, gentleman, and his first wife (née Jones). His younger brother was Richard…...
Quain, Richard
Quain, Richard (1800–87), surgeon, anatomical lecturer, and medical writer, was born in July 1800 at Fermoy, Co. Cork, third son of Richard Quain, gentleman, of Rathealy, Co. Cork, and his first wife (née Jones). His elder brother was Jones…...
Quin, Henry
Quin, Henry (1717–91), medical doctor and lapidary, was probably born in Dublin, one of two sons and one daughter of Thomas Quin (d. 1767), an eminent apothecary in the city, and Isabella Quin (née Brownrigg), daughter of Henry Brownrigg, of Annagh, Gorey, Co. Wexford. He was…...
Rambaut, Daniel Frederick
Rambaut, Daniel Frederick (1865–1937), doctor and Irish international rugby player, was born on 6 August 1865 at 3 Newtown Buildings, Waterford city, to Reverend Edmund Francis Rambaut, a Church of Ireland clergyman at Trinity, Waterford (who later moved to Carysfort church, Blackrock,…...
Rawdon, John
Rawdon, John (1720–93), 1st earl of Moira, landowner, patron of the arts, and opposition peer, was born 17 March 1720, second (but first surviving) son of Sir John Rawdon, 3rd baronet, of Rawdon Hall, Yorkshire, and Moira, Co. Down, and Dorothy, daughter of Sir…...
Reeves, Alice
Reeves, Alice (1874–1955), matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, was born in December 1874, daughter of the Rev. Charles Robert Reeves, clergyman, and Charlotte Reeves (née Haire). She was orphaned at age five or six and was raised by her aunt. When she was nineteen she began…...
Relhan, Anthony
Relhan, Anthony (1715–76), physician, was born in Dublin, son of Anthony Relhan, merchant, and Margaret Relhan (d. 1750). Educated at Dr Sheridan's school in Dublin, he entered TCD in November 1730, was made a scholar (1734) and…...