Chambers, Charles Edward
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Chambers, John Henry
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Chambers, Robert Martin
Chambers, Robert Martin (1865–1949), John Henry (‘Jack’) (1867–1937), and Charles Edward (‘Charlie’) (1873–1931), motor manufacturers, were second, third, and fifth sons of John and Ellen Chambers of Tullynaskeagh,…...
Charles, Robert Henry
Charles, Robert Henry (1855–1931), Biblical scholar, was born 6 August 1855 at Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, probably in Loy House, fifth of the seven sons of Dr David H. Charles and Annie E. Charles (née Allen). He attended Belfast Academy and won a scholarship to…...
Chesney, Francis Rawdon
Chesney, Francis Rawdon (1789–1872), soldier and explorer, was born 16 March 1789 at Ballyveagh, near Annalong, Co. Down, eldest son of Capt. Alexander Chesney, coastguard officer, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and his second wife, Jane (née Wilson), of Ballymena. Capt. Chesney had been…...
Clagget (Claget), Charles
Clagget (Claget), Charles (c.1741–c.1820), musician and inventor, was born in Waterford. Together with his younger brother Walter (c.1742–c.1798) he moved to Dublin before 1762, having spent some time in Edinburgh, where they appear to have…...
Clanny, William Reid
Clanny, William Reid (1776–1850), doctor and inventor of a safety lamp, was born in 1776 at Bangor, Co. Down, of a presbyterian family. He joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon and was present at the battle of Copenhagen (1801); on leaving the navy, he completed his training…...
Clarendon, Frederick Villiers
Clarendon, Frederick Villiers (c.1820–1904), architect and civil engineer, was born in Dublin, one of several sons of Thomas Clarendon (fl. 1800–20), linen draper, of Westmoreland St., and estate developer. Nothing is known of his mother. He entered…...
Clarke, Adam
Clarke, Adam (1760/62–1832), methodist minister and scholar, was born at Moybeg, near Maghera, Co. Londonderry, son of John Clarke (fl. 1762), schoolmaster, whose early marriage to a Miss McLean prevented him from completing a degree in…...
Clarke, Edward Marmaduke
Clarke, Edward Marmaduke (c.1806–1859), entrepreneur and scientific-instrument maker, was born c.1806, probably in Dublin, the son of Edward Clarke. An Edward Clarke appears as an optician based in Sackville Street, Dublin, from 1810 until 1821 (with interruptions). It…...
Clemens Scottus
Clemens Scottus (‘the Irishman’) (fl. c.800), scholar, was teacher at the palace school at Aachen under Charlemagne (d. 814) and his son Louis the Pious. A letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne, dated 797, refers to the presence of Irish scholars at the palace court, one of…...
Clinch, James Bernard
Clinch, James Bernard (1770–1834), scholar and pamphleteer, was born 16 July 1770 in James's St., Dublin, fifth son of Joseph Clinch, a merchant originally from Ratoath, Co. Meath, and Mary Clinch (née Higgins) from Knockmane, Co. Roscommon. Educated at the Rev. Beragh's academy…...
Cochrane, Robert
Cochrane, Robert (1844–1916), engineer, architect, and antiquarian, was born 21 July 1844 in Co. Down, eldest son of Hugh W. Cochrane, of an ancient Scottish-Danish family that came to Ireland in the seventeenth century. He graduated in engineering from…...
Cockburn, Sir George
Cockburn, Sir George (1764–1847), soldier, traveller, writer, and antiquary, was born 18 February 1764 in Dublin, only child of George Cockburn (d. 1775), a Scottish businessman who settled in Ireland in 1739 and married Ann (d. 1769), second of two children of Charles Caldwell,…...
Coffey, Æneas
Coffey, Æneas (c.1780–1852), excise official and inventor, was the son of Andrew Coffey and his wife, daughter of a Capt. Ryan who died of wounds received during the arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (qv). Andrew Coffey…...
Colby, Thomas Frederick
Colby, Thomas Frederick (1784–1852), engineer and administrator, was born 1 September 1784 at Rochester, Kent, England, eldest child of Maj. Thomas Colby (Royal Marines) of south Wales, and Cornelia Colby (née Hadden), both of military families. Educated at Northfleet, Kent, and the…...
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…...
Colleary, (James) Gordon
Colleary, (James) Gordon (1941–2014), travel entrepreneur and newspaper publisher, was born on 7 March 1941 in Tuam, Co. Galway, the eldest of five children of Gerald Francis Calleary, headmaster of Tuam Vocational School, and his wife Josephine Margaret Calleary (née Gordon). (The…...
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).…...
Collier, Michael
Collier, Michael (1780–1849), highwayman, was born at Bellewstown Hill, Co. Meath, son of a small farmer; no other details of his parents are known. Aged 13, he was employed as a farm labourer in Co. Louth, and he later worked as a carman on the Dublin–Drogheda mail coach (where he…...
Collins, Jerome James
Collins, Jerome James (1841–81) meteorologist, Arctic explorer, and founder of Clan na Gael, was born 17 October 1841 in Cork city, the son of Mark Collins, a lime and saltworks owner of South Main Street, Cork, and his wife Ellen (née Ryan). He attended St Vincent's Seminary,…...
Coll, Vincent (‘Mad Dog’)
Coll, Vincent (‘Mad Dog’) (1908–32), gangster, was born 20 July 1908 in Bunbeg, Gweedore, Co. Donegal, seventh child among six sons and two daughters of Tuathall Óg (‘Toaly’) Coll, of Bunbeg, a small farmer, and Anna Mary Coll (née Duncan), of Dublin. His parents had met and married…...
Colmán
Colmán ( fl. 7th century?) is known only as the author of a letter to one Feradach, announcing that he had received certain improved texts a Romanis (‘from those in Rome’ or ‘from the Romani’). The texts mentioned were Isidore, ‘De ecclesiasticis officiis’ (the…...
Colmán
Colmán (fl. 9th cent.), the otherwise unknown author of two well-constructed poems in Virgilian hexameters. One of the poems recalls a miracle of St Brigit (qv); it was written at Rome (in Roma…...
Colthurst, John Colthurst Bowen-
Colthurst, John Colthurst Bowen- (1880–1965), army officer and murderer, was born John Colthurst Bowen in Cork on 12 August 1880, eldest son of Robert Walter Travers Bowen JP (who changed the family name to Bowen-Colthurst in 1882 to meet the…...