Cox, Sir Richard
Cox, Sir Richard (1702–66), 2nd baronet, improving landlord, and politician, was born 23 November 1702, probably on his father's estate at Dunmanway, Co. Cork, eldest son among three sons and a daughter of Richard Cox and his first wife, Susannah, daughter of James French of Cork…...
Crawford, William Horatio
Crawford, William Horatio (1812×1818–1888), brewer and philanthropist, was first-born son of William Crawford (d. 1840), brewer, and Dulcibella Crawford (née Morris) of Lakelands House, Blackrock, Cork; a brother died young. The family was originally from Co. Down, related to the…...
Crichton (Creighton), John
Crichton (Creighton), John (1802–85), 3rd earl and 4th baron of Erne (Ireland) and 1st Baron Fermanagh (UK), landowner and progressive agriculturalist, was born on 30 July 1802, the elder son (he had a brother and two sisters) of Colonel John Creighton (1772–1833), governor of Hurst…...
Crichton, John Henry
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Crofton, Sir Edward
Crofton, Sir Edward (c.1662–1729), politician and landowner, was eldest son of Sir Edward Crofton, 1st baronet, of The Mote, Co. Roscommon, and his second wife, Susannah Clifford of Devon. His early life remains obscure; he succeeded as 2nd baronet on his father's death (…...
Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois
Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois (1865–1939), astronomer, was born 6 February 1865 at Cushendun, Co. Antrim, grandson of Nicholas Crommelin (qv), and third son among twelve children of Nicholas…...
Crommelin, (Samuel) Louis
Crommelin, (Samuel) Louis (1652–1727), huguenot businessman, settler of Lisburn, Co. Antrim, and putative founder of the Irish linen industry, was born in Armancourt, near St Quentin, in the French province of Picardy, the son of Louis Crommelin and Marie Mettayer. The Crommelin…...
Crosbie, John
Crosbie, John (1753–1815), landowner, MP, and 2nd earl of Glandore , was born 25 May 1753, second son among two sons and three daughters of William Crosbie (d. 1781), 1st earl of Glandore, and his wife Lady Theodosia (d. 1777), daughter of John Bligh, 1st earl of Darnley. Educated…...
Cuffe, James
Cuffe, James (1747?–1821), 1st Baron Tyrawley of Ballinrobe and MP, was eldest among two sons and five daughters of James Cuffe (d. 1762) of Elm Hall, Co. Mayo, landowner and MP for Co. Mayo 1742–60, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Arthur Gore (1682–1742), 2nd baronet, of…...
Cusack, John
Cusack, John (d. 1626), merchant, was the eldest son, of the seven sons and three daughters, of Nicholas Cusack of Ballymolghan, Co. Meath, and his wife, Maud, daughter of Thomas Plunket of Lagore. He was admitted a freeman of Dublin in 1592, having served his apprenticeship. He…...
Darcy, Hyacinth Talbot
Darcy, Hyacinth Talbot (1806–74), evangelical clergyman and landlord, was born at Glen Ierne, Clifden, son of John Darcy (see below) of a Connemara gentry family, one of the fourteen ‘Tribes of Galway’. A private tutor, Mr Hawkesworth, prepared Hyacinth for the undergraduate…...
Darcy, John
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Dawson, George William Percy
Dawson, George William Percy (1927–2004), geneticist, art lover and philanthropist, was born 7 August 1927 in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England, the only child of Percy John Fritz Stanley Dawson, fishmonger, and his wife Edith Helen (née Fildes). Education He was…...
Delmonte, (Simeon) Koert
Delmonte, (Simeon) Koert (1913–82), portrait and landscape painter, was born 15 April 1913 in van Mierlestraat, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, eldest of three children of Solomon Delmonte, banker, and his wife Nanetha, daughter of Simon Speyer, diamond merchant. His younger brother…...
Denny, Sir Barry
Denny, Sir Barry (c.1741–1794), 1st baronet, politician, was the second son of four sons and two daughters of the Rev. Barry Denny, of Ballyvelly, provost of Tralee, Co. Kerry, and his wife, Jane Denny (née O'Connor), the daughter, and eventual heir, of the Rev. Maurice O…...
De Vere (Hunt), Sir Aubrey
De Vere (Hunt), Sir Aubrey (1788–1846), 2nd baronet, dramatist, poet, and country gentleman, was born 28 August 1788 at Curragh Chase, parish of Adare, Co. Limerick, eldest son of Sir Vere Hunt, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of William Cecil Pery (1721–94), bishop of Limerick. Sir…...
De Vere, Sir Stephen Edward
De Vere, Sir Stephen Edward (1812–1904), polemicist, poet, and country gentleman, was born 26 July 1812 at Curragh Chase, parish of Adare, Co. Limerick, second son of Sir Aubrey de Vere (qv) and Mary de Vere (née Spring-Rice…...
Devereux, Walter
Devereux, Walter (1539–76), 1st earl of Essex , colonist in Ireland, was born 16 September 1539 at Carmarthen castle, Wales, elder son and heir of Sir Richard Devereux and Dorothy, daughter of George Hastings, earl of Huntingdon. On the death of his grandfather, Walter, on 27…...
Digby, Simon
Digby, Simon (c.1645–1720), miniature-painter and bishop of Elphin, was born at Kilminchy, Queen's Co. (Laois), youngest son of Essex Digby and his wife Thomasine, daughter of Sir William Gilbert of Kilminchy, Queen's Co. Essex Digby became dean of Cashel in 1661 and…...
Dillon, Sir John Talbot
Dillon, Sir John Talbot (c.1740–1805), 1st baronet, politician, was born at Lismullen, Co. Meath, son of Arthur Dillon and his wife, Elizabeth Dillon (née Tilson); he was the grandson of Sir John Dillon, MP for Kells (1692–3) and Co. Meath (1695–9 and 1703–8). Little is…...
Dillon, Thomas
Dillon, Thomas (1615–1673/4), 4th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen, army officer, was born in March 1615, second son of Sir Christopher Dillon of Ballylagham, Co. Mayo, lord president of Connacht, and Lady Jane, eldest daughter of James Dillon, 1st earl of Roscommon. He was a…...
Dixon, Frederick E.
Dixon, Frederick E. (1913–88) meteorologist, historian, and philatelist, was born 27 March 1913 in Oundle, near Peterborough, England, a son of Nathan Dixon and his wife, Edith, née Howitt, who also had another son and a daughter. He attended Deacon's School, Peterborough, and…...
Dobson, George Edward
Dobson, George Edward (1848–95), zoologist, was born 4 September 1848 at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, the eldest son of Parke Dobson, a doctor in Edgeworthstown, who was of a family from Killinagh, Co. Westmeath, and his wife, Jane, née Brock or van den Brock, who was the…...
Dockrell, Henry Morgan
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Dockrell, Maurice Edward
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