Hearn, William Edward
Hearn, William Edward (1826–88), lawyer and politician in Australia, was born 21 April 1826 at Belturbet, Co. Cavan, the second of seven sons of the Rev. William Edward Hearn, curate at Killargue, Co. Leitrim, and his wife, Henrietta Alicia Hearn (née Reynolds). Educated at…...
Heuston, Robert Francis Vere
Heuston, Robert Francis Vere (1923–95), jurist, was born in Dublin on 17 November 1923. He was the eldest son of Vere Douglas Heuston, managing clerk in Guinness's brewery, and his wife, Dorothy Helen, née Coulter. He was proud of his direct descent from a first cousin of…...
Hewitt, James
Hewitt, James (1715–89), 1st Viscount Lifford , lord chancellor of Ireland, was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, eldest of three sons of William Hewitt (1683–1747), mercer and draper (mayor of Coventry, 1744), and his wife Hannah Lewis (d. 1760). After serving articles with a local…...
Higinbotham, George
Higinbotham, George (1826–92), journalist, politician, and chief justice in Victoria, Australia, was born 19 April 1826 in Dublin, the sixth son of Henry T. Higinbotham, a merchant, and his wife, Sarah Higinbotham (née Wilson). He was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, then…...
Hincks, Edward
Hincks, Edward (1792–1866), Church of Ireland clergyman, Egyptologist and Assyriologist, was born 19 August 1792 at Princes Street, Cork, the eldest of the eight children (five sons and three daughters) of Thomas Dix Hincks (qv), a…...
Hoare, Joseph
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Hobson, William
Hobson, William (1793–1842), naval officer and first governor of New Zealand, was born 26 September 1793 in Newtown Lodge, Waterford city, third among five sons of Samuel Hobson, assistant barrister for Co. Cork, and his wife Martha Jones, who was a member of a family that had…...
Holmes, Hugh
Holmes, Hugh (1840–1916), judge and politician, was born 17 February 1840 in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, son of William Holmes, esq., and Sarah Jane Holmes (née Maxwell). He was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and TCD, where he graduated…...
Holmes, Robert
Holmes, Robert (1765–1859), lawyer, was born 8 November 1765 in Dublin, eldest son of Hugh Holmes, merchant, from Chapelizod, Co. Dublin (formerly a painter in Belfast), and Mary Holmes (née Smith). He entered TCD in 1782, was a scholar…...
Holmes, Thomas Rice Edward
Holmes, Thomas Rice Edward (1855–1933), historian and classicist, was born 24 May 1855 at Waterstown House, near Athlone, Co. Westmeath, fifth son of Robert Holmes, farmer and breeder of cows and horses, and Jane Holmes (née Henn). Originally taught by a private tutor, he entered…...
Hone, Joseph Maunsell
Hone, Joseph Maunsell (1882–1959), critic, biographer, and publisher, was born 8 February 1882 at Queen's Park, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, the eldest son of William Hone (1842–1919), a well-known cricketer who played for Ireland and the MCC, and his wife, Sarah, the daughter of James…...
Hudson, William Elliott
Hudson, William Elliott (1796–1853), lawyer and patron of Gaelic scholarship, was born 18 August 1796, probably at his family's country residence, then known as Fields of Odin, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. It was later called The Hermitage: Robert…...
Hughes, Hector Samuel James
Hughes, Hector Samuel James (1887–1970), barrister and politician, was born 14 August 1887 in Dublin, eldest son of Alexander Wilson Hughes, a law clerk, of Beach House, Sandymount, and Elizabeth Anne Hughes (née Dempsey). Educated as a boy chorister at the diocesan school of St…...
Hull, Sir William
Hull, Sir William (c.1573–1643), pirate collaborator and settler, was one of two surviving sons and five daughters of Henry Hull, a merchant and ship owner of Exeter, and his wife Julianna (née Spurway). Henry maintained a family tradition by serving as mayor of Exeter in 1605…...
Hume, Abraham, (‘Billy M'Cart’)
Hume, Abraham, (‘Billy M'Cart’) (1814–84), clergyman and antiquarian, was born 9 February 1814 at ‘Beechfield’, Corcreeny, Hillsborough, Co. Down, the younger of the two sons of Thomas F. Hume, farmer, and Margaret Hume (née Simpson). His birthplace had once been the manse of his…...
Hutchinson, Francis
Hutchinson, Francis (1660–1739), bishop and author, was born 2 January 1660 in the hamlet of Carsington, Derbyshire, into the middling orders. Third among four children of Edward Hutchinson and his wife Mary Tallents, he entered Catherine Hall, Cambridge (1677), graduating…...
Ireland, John Evan de Courcy
Ireland, John Evan de Courcy (1911–2006), socialist, activist, teacher, and maritime historian, was born 19 October 1911 in Lucknow, India, only child of De Courcy Ireland (1873–1915), a British army major of Irish ancestry, and his English-born wife Gabrielle (née Byron). …...
Jackson, Joseph Devonsher
Jackson, Joseph Devonsher (1783–1857), judge and politician, was born 23 June 1783 in Co. Cork, eldest son of Strettel Jackson, carrier, of Peterborough, Co. Cork, and Mary Jackson (née Cossens). Educated locally by an evangelical protestant minister, he entered…...
Jackson, Richard
Jackson, Richard (c.1720–1787), lawyer and politician, was born at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, the only son among three children of Richard Jackson, a wealthy merchant, and Elizabeth Jackson (née Clarke). He entered TCD (1737),…...
Jackson, Robert Wyse
Jackson, Robert Wyse (1908–76), clergyman, writer, and artist, was born 12 July 1908 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, only son of Richard Jackson, a bank manager from Killinane, Co. Kildare, and Belinda Hester Jackson (née Sherlock), of Bandon, Co. Cork. Educated at the Abbey School, Co…...
Jackson, William
Jackson, William (1737?–95), protestant clergyman, journalist, and revolutionary, was born probably in Ireland, the youngest of the four sons of an official in the prerogative court in Dublin, and his wife (née Gore), both of whom were Irish. The eldest son, Richard, was vicar…...
Jebb, Richard
Jebb, Richard (1766–1834), author and judge, was born in Drogheda, Co. Louth, and baptised on 24 July 1766, elder son among two sons and three daughters of John Jebb (d. 1796), alderman of the borough, and his second wife Alice or Alicia (née Forster; d. 1790). His younger brother…...
Jocelyn, Robert
Jocelyn, Robert (c.1688–1756), 1st Viscount Jocelyn , lord chancellor, was the only son of Thomas Jocelyn of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Bray of Westminster. In 1708 he was pupil in the office of the solicitor Charles Salkeld in…...
Jones, Thomas
Jones, Thomas (1550–1619), Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin and lord chancellor of Ireland, was the younger son of Henry Jones of Middleton, Lancashire; nothing is known of his mother. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge (BA,…...
Joyce, William Brooke (‘Lord Haw-Haw’)
Joyce, William Brooke (‘Lord Haw-Haw’) (1906–46), fascist and propagandist, was born 24 April 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of three sons of Michael Joyce, building contractor, and his wife, Gertrude (née Brooke), whose forebears were protestants from Cavan. Michael…...