Jellett, John Hewitt
Jellett, John Hewitt (1817–88), mathematician and provost of TCD, was born 25 December 1817 at Cashel, Co. Tipperary, eldest among four sons and one daughter of the Rev. Morgan Jellett (d. 1831), rector of Pallasgrean, near Cashel, and Harriette Anne Jellett (née Poole; d. 1829),…...
Johnson, William Frederick
Johnson, William Frederick (1852–1934), clergyman, teacher, and entomologist, was born 20 April 1852 at Cochin, Travancore, India, son of Edward J. Johnson, a member of the Church Missionary Society; his mother's name is not known. For the most part he was privately educated, although…...
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…...
Kearney, John
Kearney, John (1741–1813), provost of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and bishop of Ossory, was born in Co. Dublin, second son of Michael Kearney, surgeon-barber of Dublin; his mother's name is not known. He entered TCD as a student on 10 October 1757 at the age of fifteen, and was elected…...
Kelly, Denis Joseph
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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 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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
Lawless, Sir Nicholas
Lawless, Sir Nicholas (1733–99), woollen draper, banker, MP, and 1st Baron Cloncurry , was born 30 October 1733, eldest son of Robert Lawless (d. 1775), woollen draper, of 2 High St., the Liberties, Dublin, and his wife Mary, daughter of Dominick Hadsor and widow of Robert…...
Lawrence, John Fortune
Lawrence, John Fortune (1833–97), sporting merchant and publisher, was born 13 January 1833 in Dublin, the eldest of six brothers and five sisters (three of each reaching adulthood) of William Lawrence (d. 1887), a clerk of works at the General Post Office (GPO), and his wife Elizabeth…...
Lawrence, William Mervin
Lawrence, William Mervin (1840–1932), photograph merchant, was born 5 July 1840 in the General Post Office, Lower Sackville (later O'Connell) St., Dublin, second surviving son of William Lawrence of Pembrokeshire, Wales, then clerk of works at the…...
Lingard (Lyngard), Richard
Lingard (Lyngard), Richard (d. 1670), protestant clergyman, fellow of TCD, and vice-chancellor of Dublin University, was born in England towards the end of the sixteenth century. Details of his early life are extremely scarce, although he may have been descended from the Lingard…...
Lloyd, Bartholomew
Lloyd, Bartholomew (1772–1837), mathematician and provost of TCD, was born 5 February 1772 at New Ross, Co. Wexford, the eldest son of Humphrey Lloyd and his wife Margaret Borbidge. His father died soon afterwards and he was raised by his uncle, the Rev. John Lloyd (d. 1781),…...
Lloyd, Edward
Lloyd, Edward (fl. 1700–1732), coffee house proprietor, publisher, and writer, was born in England and probably moved to Dublin in the 1690s. Nothing is known of his parents. A namesake, Edward Lloyd (d. 1713), founded (c.1688) Lloyd's coffee house in London, which…...
Lloyd, Humphrey
Lloyd, Humphrey (1800–81), scientist and provost of TCD, was born 16 April 1800 in Dublin, eldest son of the Rev. Bartholomew Lloyd (qv), then a fellow and later provost of TCD, and…...