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…...
Mitford, John Freeman
Mitford, John Freeman (1748–1830), Baron Redesdale , lord chancellor of Ireland, was born 18 August 1748 at Holborn, England, second son of John Mitford, barrister, and Philadelphia Mitford (née Reveley). Educated at Cheam School, Surrey, he entered Inner Temple and was called to…...
Molloy (Mulloy), Charles
Molloy (Mulloy), Charles (1646?–1690), legal writer, was born in Ireland, almost certainly in King's Co. (Offaly), probably in 1646. The O'Molloys had been one of the most prominent Gaelic families in the area, though much of their patrimony was lost by the early 1600s. Charles is…...
Moore, James
Moore, James (1819–83), surgeon and artist, was born March 1819 in Belfast, son of David Moore, RN (who was appointed fleet surgeon by Nelson (1803) as a reward for distinguished service, and later practised in Belfast), and Margarita Moore (née…...
Moore, Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill
Moore, Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill (1893–1979), lawyer and judge, was born 16 March 1893, the fourth child and only son of Canon Henry Kingsmill Moore, head of the Church of Ireland training college, and his wife, Constance Turpin. He had three older siblings, two of whom died in…...
Morris, William O'Connor
Morris, William O'Connor (1824–1904), judge and historian, was born 26 November 1824 in Kilkenny city, eldest son of the Rev. Benjamin Morris, clergyman, and his wife Elizabeth, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Morris Nugent O'Connor, a wealthy landowner from Gortnamona, King's…...
Mossop, William
Mossop, William (1751–1805), and his son William Stephen (1788–1827), engravers and designers of medals, were born in Dublin. William Mossop was born as William Browne; when he was a child, his father (a Roman catholic) died and his mother – after her second marriage to William Mossop (…...
Mossop, William Stephen
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Moynan, Richard Thomas
Moynan, Richard Thomas (1856–1906), painter, was born 27 April 1856, at 1 Eldon Terrace, off the South Circular Road, Dublin, fourth of eight children (three sons and five daughters) of Richard Moynan, who held a managerial position in the fabric importers Ferrier, Pollock &…...
Murphy, Edward Sullivan
Murphy, Edward Sullivan (1880–1945), politician and lord justice of appeal for Northern Ireland, was born 3 February 1880 in Dublin, fourth son of James Murphy (1826–1901), MP and judge, and his wife Mary Josephine, eldest daughter of…...
Napier, Sir Joseph
Napier, Sir Joseph (1804–82), 1st baronet, judge and politician, was born 26 December 1804 in Belfast, son of William Napier, merchant (a descendant of a Scots gentry family, which included the inventor of logarithms), and his wife Rosetta (née Macnaghten). He was educated at the…...
Norcott, William
Norcott, William (1773?–1820), barrister, satirist, and bon vivant, was eldest son of William Norcott of Charleville, Co. Cork, and Mary Norcott (née Knight). He entered TCD in July 1790, graduating BA…...
O'Connor, Maurice
O'Connor, Maurice (d. 1740), lawyer and patron of Turlough Carolan (qv), was born in the late seventeenth century, eldest among three sons of John O'Connor Faly, attorney, of Gortnamona, King's Co. (…...
O'Daly, John
O'Daly, John (1800–78), writer and publisher, was born 5 February 1800 in Fernane, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, eldest among three sons and three daughters of Eamonn O'Daly and Brigid O'Daly (née Kyley). He was educated at a local hedge school before going to work, in 1826, for the…...
O'Grady, Standish James
O'Grady, Standish James (1766–1840), 1st Viscount Guillamore , attorney general and judge, was born 20 January 1766 at Limerick, eldest of seven surviving sons of Darby O'Grady, landowner, of Mount Prospect, Co. Limerick, and Mary O'Grady (née Smyth). Educated locally, he entered…...
Orpen, Richard Francis Caulfeild
Orpen, Richard Francis Caulfeild (1863–1938), architect and painter, was born 24 December 1863, the eldest of four sons and two daughters of Arthur Herbert Orpen, a solicitor, of Oriel, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, and Anne Orpen (née Caulfeild), daughter of Revd Charles Caulfeild (1804–62),…...
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, John
Osborne, John (c.1641/3–1692), lawyer and politician, was probably the son and heir of Francis Osborne of Northambridge, Essex, England. A barrister of the Inner Temple, he was admitted to King's Inns in November 1661. The circumstances of his coming to Ireland are not…...
Overend, Andrew Kingsbury (King)
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Overend, George Acheson (Achie GAO)
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Overend, George Gordon (GGO)
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Overend, Thomas George
Overend, Thomas George (1846–1915), barrister and county court judge, was born 24 October 1846, the fifth son (one of his brothers died before the age of one) of James S. Overend (1808–53), engineer and contractor, a methodist of Tandragee, Co. Armagh, and his wife, Martha Best (…...
Parsons, Sir Lawrence
Parsons, Sir Lawrence (d. 1628), lawyer and planter, was a son of James Parsons of Leicestershire and his wife Catherine, sister of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (qv), secretary of state for Ireland (1580–1608). Lawrence was the youngest of…...
Pennefather, Edward
Pennefather, Edward (1773–1847), barrister and judge, was born 22 October 1773 at Darling Hill, Knockevan, Co. Tipperary, second son of Major William Pennefather, MP for Cashel and formerly of the 13th Light Dragoons, and his wife Ellen, eldest daughter of the Ven. Edward Moore of…...
Pennefather, Richard
Pennefather, Richard (1773–1859), judge and chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, was born in August 1773 at Dublin, the eldest son of Major William Pennefather, of Knockeven (between Clonmel and Cashel), Darling Hill, Co. Tipperary (MP for Cashel in the Irish parliament), and…...