Cleaver, Sir (James) Frederick
Cleaver, Sir (James) Frederick (1875–1936), businessman, was born 8 June 1875 in Belfast, third son of John Cleaver and Mary Anne Cleaver (née Spence). John Cleaver (1842–1926) was born in England, possibly in Sussex. He came to Belfast as a young man, and worked in a draper's shop…...
Cleeve, Sir Thomas Henry
Cleeve, Sir Thomas Henry (1844–1908), industrialist, was born 5 June 1844 in Richmond, Quebec, Canada, eldest son among six sons and one daughter of Edward Elms Cleeve (1814–85), originally of Woolwich, England, and later of Cleveland, Quebec, and his wife Sophia Olivia (d. 1904),…...
Clery, Michael John
Clery, Michael John (1833/4–96), draper, was born at Bulgaden, near Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, and was said at the time of his death to have come from ‘an old County Limerick family'. He entered the drapery trade in Cork with the firm of Fitzgibbon, moved to Dublin to work for…...
Coakley, Daniel John
Coakley, Daniel John (1872–1951), accountant, teacher, and town planner, was born 29 September 1872 at Donoughmore, Co. Cork, one of five sons and two daughters of John Coakley, farmer, and Mary Coakley (née Hegarty). A railway audit accountant, he was one of five candidates…...
Coakley, Denis
Coakley, Denis (1922–87), businessman and farmer, was born 15 October 1922 at Bunkilla, Donoughmore, Co. Cork, the son of farmers Jeremiah Coakley and Katy (née Buckley) Coakley. Educated at Presentation College, Cork, and UCC, he…...
Coates, Sir William Frederick
Coates, Sir William Frederick (1866–1932), 1st baronet , stockbroker, was born 1 March 1866, son of David Lindsay Coates and Sarah Coates (née Mulligan) of Clonallon, Strandtown, Belfast, and was educated in RBAI and St Mark'…...
Cochrane, Sir Henry
Cochrane, Sir Henry (1836–1904), 1st baronet, manufacturer and politician, was born 21 December 1836 at Virginia, Co. Cavan, the only son of William Cochrane, farmer, of Graughlough House, Co. Cavan, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Henry McQuade. After a rudimentary local education…...
Cochrane, Sir Stanley Herbert
Cochrane, Sir Stanley Herbert (1877–1949), baronet, businessman, and patron of music and sport, was born 19 September 1877, the fourth son of Sir Henry Cochrane (qv), 1st baronet, of Woodbrook, Bray, Co. Wicklow, and his wife…...
Coile, Bernard
Coile, Bernard (1771?–1829), linen manufacturer and catholic activist, was born near Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, on, by his own account, 14 May 1771 (though a gravestone inscription suggests 1766). His father's family were from Co. Donegal and related to the catholic bishop of…...
Cole, John James
Cole, John James (1874–1959), politician and businessman, was born in Kinnegar, Holywood, Co. Down, eldest among five sons of James Cole, commercial traveller, and Charlotte Cole (née Connell?). Educated at Donegall Pass national school and Sullivan Upper School, Holywood (1887–90…...
Cole, Walter Leonard
Cole, Walter Leonard (1866–1943), businessman and politician, was born 15 May 1866 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, younger son among four children of George Cole (d. 18 December 1902), director of the North West Railway Co., and Arabella Cole (née Hughes) of Wales. Educated at St…...
Colgan, Nathaniel
Colgan, Nathaniel (1851–1919), botanist, marine biologist, and traveller, was born 28 May 1851 in Dublin. The identity of his parents is not known with certainty, though they may have been Nathaniel Watson Colgan and Letitia Phair, who married in Dublin in 1846. Colgan was educated…...
Colles, William
Colles, William (1702–70), inventor and entrepreneur, was born on 31 August 1702, the second of four sons of William Colles (1648–1719), surgeon, who practised in England until 1677 and eventually acquired landed property in Co. Kilkenny, and his second wife, Hanna (née Culter).…...
Collins, Alfred Tenison
Collins, Alfred Tenison (1852–1945), banker, was born 22 September 1852 in Tipperary town, the son of Joseph Tenison Collins and Sarah Louise Collins, daughter of Charles Morrogh McCarthy. Joseph was for many years manager of the National Bank, Ballinasloe, and was a contributor to…...
Collins, Thomas
Collins, Thomas (d. 1814), linen merchant and informer, was established in Dublin by 1769, when, a member of the merchants’ guild, he was admitted as a freeman. He belonged also to a businessmen's society called the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley, which was traditionally conservative…...
Colvill, James Chaigneau
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Colvill, Robert Frederick Stewart
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Colvill, William
Colvill, William (1737–1820), corn merchant and MP, was born 6 December 1737, the second son of William Colvill (1675?–1755), an agent at Newtownards, Co. Down, and his wife Jane, daughter of John Thompson of Blackabbey, Co. Down. From his father he inherited £5,000, part of which…...
Colvill, William Chaigneau
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Conan, Walter
Conan, Walter (1860–1936), inventor and tailor, was born at the family house, Roseneath, Sandymount Avenue, Dublin, one of four sons and six daughters of Joseph Conan, a wealthy merchant tailor, of Dawson St., Dublin, and his wife Agnes, daughter of a Scottish clockmaker, David…...
Conefrey, Peter
Conefrey, Peter (1880–1939), catholic priest and social critic, was born 9 June 1880 in Mohill, Co. Leitrim, son of James Conefrey, publican, and his wife Mary McGivney. There were many priests on both sides of the family. His uncle, Fr Thomas Conefrey, parish priest of Drumlish,…...
Connolly, Joseph
Connolly, Joseph (1885–1961), politician, businessman and civil servant, was born 19 January 1885 at 41 Alexander St. West, Belfast, one of fourteen children (five of whom died in infancy) of John Connolly, master baker, and Margaret Connolly (née MacNeill) of Cushendall, Co.…...
Cooke, Adolphus
Cooke, Adolphus (1792–1876), eccentric, was born in Cookesborough near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, illegitimate son of Robert Cooke, landowner, and an unnamed servant. Adolphus's mother was sent away, and he was raised by a nurse, Mary Kelly, in a two-room thatched cottage, forbidden…...
Cook, Robert
Cook, Robert (1646?–c.1726), eccentric, was the son of Robert Cook of Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. During the reign of James II (qv) he fled to England and lived at Ipswich. In its act of attainder the 1689 Jacobite parliament…...
Cope, William
Cope, William (1738–1820), silk merchant and municipal politician, was born in Dublin, son of Joseph Cope and Susannah Cope (née Handcock) of Dublin. The biographical details of his antecedents are not complete, though it would appear they were of English origin. (His grandfather…...