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…...
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, 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…...
Laffan, William Mackay
Laffan, William Mackay (1848–1909), journalist, newspaper owner, and art connoisseur, was born 24 January 1848 at 41 Philipsburgh Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin, eldest of six children of Michael Laffan, clerk in the Custom House, and Ellen Sarah Laffan (née Fitzgibbon). William's…...
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 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…...
La Touche, David III
La Touche, David III (1729–1817), banker, was born 29 August 1729, second surviving son among seven sons of David La Touche II (qv), banker, and Mary Anne La Touche (née Canaseele), of Dublin. David La Touche III may have been the ‘La…...
La Touche, James Digges
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La Touche, John David
La Touche, John David (1732–1810), banker and landowner, was born on 21 August 1732, a surviving son of David La Touche II (qv), banker, and Mary Anne La Touche (née Canaseele), of Dublin. John La Touche inherited £7,000 a year and…...
La Touche, Peter
La Touche, Peter (1733–1828), politician and banker, was born 26 November 1733 in Dublin, third eldest among three surviving sons and four daughters of David La Touche II (qv), banker, and his wife Mary Anne, daughter of Gabriel…...
La Touche, William George Digges
La Touche, William George Digges (1747–1803), diplomat and banker, was born on 28 August 1747, third son of James Digges La Touche (qv) and his second wife, Martha (née Thwaites) of St Stephen's Green, Dublin. He was admitted to St Paul's School, London, on…...