Kennedy, John Pitt
Kennedy, John Pitt (1796–1879), army officer and agriculturist, was born 8 May 1796 at Donagh, Co. Donegal, fourth son of John Pitt Kennedy, rector of Donagh and later Balteagh, Co. Londonderry, and Mary Kennedy (née Cary). Educated at the Foyle Academy, Derry, he entered the…...
K'Eogh, John
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Killaly, Hamilton Hartley
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Kinahan, George Henry
Kinahan, George Henry (1829–1908), geologist, was born 19 December 1829, the third of eight sons of Daniel Kinahan (d. 1859), barrister, and Louisa Anne Kinahan (née Miller), of Belfield, Co. Dublin, who also had seven daughters. The family was well connected: Sir…...
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, George
King, George (1771–1839), 3rd earl of Kingston, MP and militia colonel, was born 28 April 1771 in Chelsea, London, eldest son of Robert King (qv), 2nd earl of Kingston, and his wife Caroline, daughter and heir of Richard Fitzgerald of Mount…...
King, William Donald Aelian ('Bill')
King, William Donald Aelian ('Bill') (1910–2012), submarine captain and yachtsman, was born on 23 June 1910 in Church Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, the only son of four children of William King, army officer, originally from Co. Galway, and his wife Georgina Marie (née Mackenzie…...
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850–1916), 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome in Kent, field-marshal, was born 24 June 1850 at Gunsborough Villa, north of Listowel, Co. Kerry, second son of Lt-col. Horatio Herbert Kitchener and his first wife, Anne Frances (née Chevallier).…...
Knox, John
Knox, John (1758–1800), soldier and MP, was born 9 October 1758, second among seven sons of Thomas Knox (qv), 1st Viscount Northland, and his wife Anne née Vesey (d. 1803), second daughter of John, 1st Lord Knapton, and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of…...
Lake, Gerard
Lake, Gerard (1744–1808), British general and MP, was born 27 July 1744, possibly in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, second son of Launcelot Charles Lake (d. 1751), a Middlesex landowner, and Letitia Lake (née Gumley; d. 1760). Educated at Eton, he was commissioned ensign 9 May…...
Lambart, Charles
Lambart, Charles (1600–60), 1st earl of Cavan , landowner, military commander and politician, was born in Ireland about May 1600, the eldest son of Sir Oliver Lambart (qv), 1st Baron Lambart of Cavan, and his wife, Hester,…...
Lambart (Lambert), Sir Oliver
Lambart (Lambert), Sir Oliver (d. 1618), 1st Baron Lambart of Cavan , soldier and Irish administrator, was the son of Walter Lambart, of Preston, Yorkshire, England, and Rose, daughter of Sir Oliver Wallop and niece of Sir Henry Wallop…...
Lamb, John George Dalkeith ('Keith')
Lamb, John George Dalkeith ('Keith') (1919–2011), horticultural scientist and plantsman, was born on 19 August 1919 in Dublin, the younger son of John Lamb, who had been a doctor in the British army, and his wife Constance (née Johnston). Constance's father, also a doctor, was a…...
Langrishe, Richard
Langrishe, Richard (1834–1922), architect and engineer, was born 6 November 1834 in Knocktopher Abbey, Kilkenny, younger son among two sons and one daughter of Rev. Sir Hercules Langrishe, politician and clergyman, and Maria Langrishe (née Cottingham) of Somerville, Co. Cavan.…...
Lanyon, Sir Charles
Lanyon, Sir Charles (1813–89), civil engineer and architect, was born 6 January 1813 at Eastbourne, Sussex, third son of John Jenkinson Lanyon, purser in the Royal Navy, and Catherine Lanyon (née Mortimer). Privately educated locally, he was articled under Jacob Owen (from 1832 of…...
Lardner, Dionysius
Lardner, Dionysius (1793–1859), scientist and writer, was born 3 April 1793 in Dublin, son of William O'Brien Lardner, solicitor, and Mary Ann Lardner (maiden name unknown). He seems to have had at least one younger brother, and may have been christened Dennis, but was calling…...
La Touche, David Digues I
La Touche, David Digues I (1671–1745), soldier and businessman, was born 15 November 1671, fourth son among six sons and three daughters of Denis Digues, seigneur de la Touche et de la Motte, nobleman, and his second wife Madeleine Digues (née Deplanche) of Château de la Touche,…...
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…...
Leathley, Joseph
Leathley, Joseph (d. 1757), ‘college binder’, printer, and bookseller, joined the Dublin printers, guild in July 1719, having been sworn a freeman of the city earlier in the year. He initially undertook a small number of joint publishing ventures with other members of the trade in…...
Le Fanu, William Richard
Le Fanu, William Richard (1816–94), civil engineer and commissioner of public works, was born 24 February 1816 in the Royal Hibernian Military School, Phoenix Park, Dublin, youngest child among two sons and a daughter of the Very Rev. Thomas Philip Le Fanu (1784–1845), dean of…...
Leslie, John
Leslie, John (1571–1671), ‘the fighting bishop’, was born 14 October 1571 in Crichie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, eldest son of George Leslie and his wife Marjory. Educated in Aberdeen, he travelled on the Continent (c.1589–c.1609), becoming fluent in French,…...
Lhuyd (Lhwyd, Lloyd), Edward
Lhuyd (Lhwyd, Lloyd), Edward (1660?–1709), Celtic philologist and naturalist, was born c.1660 in Cardiganshire, Wales, or near Oswestry, Shropshire, the illegitimate son of Edward Lloyd of Llanvorda and Bridget Pryse, both from landowning families. Lhuyd entered Jesus College,…...
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…...