Benson, Charles William
Benson, Charles William (1836–1919), clergyman and schoolmaster, was born 12 July 1836, eldest son of Dr John Benson of Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Fitzgerald, RN, of Waterford. Educated at Dr Price's school…...
Benson, Ernest Edmondson
Benson, Ernest Edmondson (1898–1975), businessman and politician, was born 5 October 1898 in Dublin, second child of Robert Benson, company director, and Bessie Benson (née Hulme), quakers. The family lived at 3 Orwell Rd, Rathgar, Dublin. His maternal grandfather was a draper and…...
Benson, Peter
Benson, Peter (c.1570–1642), builder, was born in London, son of John Benson. He had three brothers and three sisters; one died of plague. A London bricklayer, he was selected in 1614 to build the walls of Derry, and also supervised the building of houses in the city. The…...
Berchán
Berchán (6th cent.?), founder and first abbot of Cluain Sasta (Clonsast, Co. Offaly) and saint in the Irish tradition, appears to be at the centre of an extensive network of interlocking cults. The genealogies represent him as the son of Muiredach son of Daig and of Fiamain daughter…...
Beresford, George de la Poer
Beresford, George de la Poer (1765–1841), Church of Ireland bishop, was born 19 July 1765 in Dublin, second son of the Rt Hon. John Beresford (qv) (1738–1805) and his wife Anne Constantia, daughter of Gen.…...
Beresford, John Claudius
Beresford, John Claudius (1766–1846), politician and banker, was born 23 October 1766 in Dublin, third son among nine children of John Beresford (qv), commissioner of revenue and son of Marcus Beresford (1694–1763), 1st earl of Tyrone…...
Beresford, Lord John George de la Poer
Beresford, Lord John George de la Poer (1773–1862), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh, was born 22 November 1773 in Tyrone House, Dublin, third son (among four sons and two daughters) of George de la Poer Beresford (1735–1800), 2nd earl of Tyrone and 1st marquess of Waterford…...
Beresford, Marcus Gervais
Beresford, Marcus Gervais (1801–85), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh, was born in Dublin 14 February 1801, second son in a family of three sons and five daughters of George de la Poer Beresford (qv), bishop of…...
Beresford, William
Beresford, William (1743–1819), 1st Baron Decies, Church of Ireland archbishop of Tuam, was born 16 April 1743, an illegitimate son of Marcus Beresford, first earl of Tyrone (1694–1763). He entered Trinity College Dublin on 18 December 1759, and there graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1763…...
Bergin, Liam Diarmuid
Bergin, Liam Diarmuid (1913–94), newspaper proprietor and editor, was born 15 August 1913 at Athy Road, Carlow town, son of Patrick C. Bergin, publican and merchant, and Kathleen Bergin (née Conlan). Educated at Newbridge College boarding school, he joined the Nationalist and…...
Berkeley, George
Berkeley, George (1685–1753), philosopher and Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne, was born 12 March 1685 in or near Kilkenny city, and spent his childhood at Dysart Castle, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Little is known of his parents other than that his father, William Berkeley, came to…...
Bermingham, Francis
Bermingham, Francis (c.1602–c.1672), Franciscan priest, was born in Athenry, Co. Galway. Educated on the Continent, he joined the Franciscan order, where he was known as Franciscus a Galvia (Francis of Galway). In 1636 he left Spain to complete his…...
Bermingham (Mac Fheorais), William
Bermingham (Mac Fheorais), William (d. 1312), archbishop of Tuam, was second son of Meiler de Bermingham, lord of Athenry. Though details of his early ecclesiastical career are exiguous, he did receive the church of Knockraffen (Knockgraffon parish, Co. Tipperary) in Cashel when he was…...
Bernard, Agnes Morrogh (Mother Mary Arsenius)
Bernard, Agnes Morrogh (Mother Mary Arsenius) (1842–1932), nun, teacher, and founder of Providence Mill, Foxford, Co. Mayo, was born 24 February 1842 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the eldest child of John Morrogh , of a prominent catholic family from Glanmire, Cork, and Frances…...
Bernard (Barnard), Nicholas
Bernard (Barnard), Nicholas (d. 1661), Church of Ireland clergyman and writer, was born in England about the start of the seventeenth century. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in May 1617, graduating BA (1621) and…...
Bernard, John Henry
Bernard, John Henry (1860–1927), Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin and provost of TCD, was born 27 July 1860 at Sooree, Bengal, India, eldest among three children of William Frederick Bernard, assistant engineer to the east Indian…...
Berwick, Edward
Berwick, Edward (1754?–1820), classicist and anglican clergyman, was born in Co. Down, son of Duke Berwick, gentleman. After attending the Rev. Saumarez Dubourdieu's school in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, he entered TCD (1770), gained a…...
Beshoff, Ivan
Beshoff, Ivan (1882?–1987), Russian immigrant and purveyor of fish and chips, was said in obituaries in the Irish Times and elsewhere to have been born in 1882 (or perhaps 1884) at Dacha Rurey, near Odessa in Ukraine, son of a magistrate, and, after briefly studying chemistry,…...
Besson, Kenneth George
Besson, Kenneth George (1915–81), hotelier, was born 25 July 1915 in Dublin, youngest of three children of Paul George Besson (born in London to a Swiss father and a French mother), hotelier, and Joan Besson (née McLean Stewart). Having served his time in London hotels, Paul Besson…...
Betagh, Thomas
Betagh, Thomas (1738–1811), Jesuit priest and educator, was born in May 1738 in Kells, Co. Meath, into a family of tanners whose ancestors had lost their estates in the Cromwellian confiscation. He received his early education at Kells, but was enrolled in the Jesuit academy in…...
Betham, Sir William
Betham, Sir William (1779–1853), archivist and scholar, was born 22 May 1779 at Stradbrooke, Suffolk, eldest surviving son among fourteen children of William Betham (d. 1839), clergyman and antiquary, and Mary Betham (née Damant). He was apprenticed to a printer, was employed to revise…...
Bewley, Ernest
Bewley, Ernest (1860–1932), founder of Bewley's Oriental Cafés, was born 14 November 1860 at Donore, Bray, Co. Wicklow, into a well established quaker business family, grandson of Samuel Bewley (qv) and younger son among two sons and…...
Bewley, Henry
Bewley, Henry (1804–76), businessman and evangelist, was born 4 July 1804, fifth of ten sons of Samuel Bewley, Dublin businessman, and Elizabeth Bewley (née Fayle); they also had three daughters. An older brother, who had been named Henry, died aged two in January 1804, and the name…...
Bewley, Joshua
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Bewley, Samuel
Bewley, Samuel (1764–1837), silk merchant, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, was born 21 April 1764 into a quaker family, youngest son of Thomas Bewley (1719–95) of Mountmellick, Queen's Co. (Laois), and Susanna Bewley (née Pim). He was probably apprenticed to a silk merchant in…...