Digby, Simon
Digby, Simon (c.1645–1720), miniature-painter and bishop of Elphin, was born at Kilminchy, Queen's Co. (Laois), youngest son of Essex Digby and his wife Thomasine, daughter of Sir William Gilbert of Kilminchy, Queen's Co. Essex Digby became dean of Cashel in 1661 and…...
Digges, Joseph Robert Garven
Digges, Joseph Robert Garven (1857–1933), anglican clergyman and beekeeper, was born 8 December 1857, probably in Dublin, youngest of the four sons and five daughters of Henry Digges and Eliza Stokes, who were married (7 June 1836) in the church of St Nicholas Within, Dublin. They…...
Dobbs, Francis
Dobbs, Francis (1750–1811), Volunteer, author, and MP, was born 27 April 1750, second son among four sons and a daughter of the Rev. Richard Dobbs (c.1694–1775), rector (1743–75) of Lisburn cathedral, Co. Antrim, and his wife Mary (d. 1796), widow of Cornet McMannus, and…...
Dodwell, Henry
Dodwell, Henry (1641–1711), theologian and non-juror, was born in Dublin, son of William Dodwell, who served in the army and held lands in Connacht, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby. He spent his early childhood in Dublin before his family moved to London and…...
Dolling, Robert William Radclyffe
Dolling, Robert William Radclyffe (1851–1902), Church of England clergyman and social reformer, was born 10 February 1851 at the Old Rectory, Magheralin, Co. Down, the sixth child of nine and the elder of two sons of Robert Holbeche Dolling (d. 1878), a landowner in Co. Down and…...
Donellan, Nehemias (Daniel, Nehemiah; Ó Domhnalláin, Fearganainm)
Donellan, Nehemias (Daniel, Nehemiah; Ó Domhnalláin, Fearganainm) (d. 1609), protestant archbishop of Tuam and Irish-language scholar, was born in Co. Galway, son of Maoileachlainn Ó Domhnalláin and his wife Sisile Ní Cheallaigh. The O'Donnellans were a well known and learned…...
Dopping, Anthony
Dopping, Anthony (1643–97), Church of Ireland bishop of Meath, was born 26 March 1643, son of Anthony Dopping (d. 1649), clerk of the pleas and the exchequer and MP for Bandon in the 1640 parliament, and his second wife Margaret, sister of…...
Dowdall, George
Dowdall, George (1487–1558), archbishop of Armagh, was appointed primate of all Ireland by Henry VIII on 29 April 1543, but was removed from office following his flight to continental Europe in July 1551. He was provided to Armagh by the papacy on 1 March 1553, and was re-instituted…...
Dowden, John
Dowden, John (1840–1910), Scottish Episcopal bishop of Edinburgh, was born 29 June 1840 in Cork city, elder of two sons of John Wheeler Dowden, a presbyterian linen merchant and brother of Richard Dowden (qv), and his wife Alicia, who…...
Dowling, Thady (Thaddeus)
Dowling, Thady (Thaddeus) (c.1544–1628), ecclesiastic and annalist, was a member of the Dowling family of Laois (Co. Laois). According to his own testimony, he was fostered in Leighlin, and received some basic education locally. He then went to Dublin, where he stayed for four…...
Downham (Downame), George
Downham (Downame), George (d. 1634), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry, was born in England, elder son of William Downham, bishop of Chester (1561–77); his mother's name is unknown. His brother, John Downham, was a distinguished puritan author. George Downham matriculated as a…...
Drelincourt, Mary
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Drelincourt, Peter
Drelincourt, Peter (1644–1722), clergyman, was born in Paris, youngest son of Charles Drelincourt, one of the ministers of the French Reformed church at Charenton which served Paris (1620–69) and a major ecclesiastical figure. His mother, Marguerite Bolduc, was the daughter of a…...
Drew, Thomas
Drew, Thomas (1800–70), evangelical clergyman, was born 26 October 1800 near St Mary's abbey, Limerick city, son of George Drew, baker and grocer, and his wife Sara (or Sarah), daughter of the Rev. Thomas Ryan, chancellor of the Church of Ireland diocese of Emly. He had at least one…...
Echlin, Robert
Echlin, Robert (d. 1635), bishop of Down and Conor, was second son of Henry Echlin, laird of Pittadro in Fifeshire, and his wife Grizel, daughter of Robert Colville of Cleish, Kinross. After graduating MA from St Andrews in 1596, he was…...
Ellison, Mervyn Archdall
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Ellison, William Frederick Archdall
Ellison, William Frederick Archdall (1864–1936), clergyman and astronomer, was born 28 April 1864 in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, eldest among eight sons and three daughters of the Very Rev. Humphrey Eakin Ellison of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow, dean of Ferns, and Letitia Ellison (née…...
Ellis, Welbore
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Elmes, Mary
Elmes, Mary (1908–2002), humanitarian worker 'righteous among the nations', was born Marie Elizabeth Jean Elmes on 5 May 1908, at Culgreine, 120 Blackrock Road, Ballintemple, Cork, the home of her parents, Edward Thomas Elmes, a pharmacist, and his wife Elizabeth Octavia (née Waters…...
Elrington, Charles Richard
Elrington, Charles Richard (1787–1850), Church of Ireland clergyman and professor of divinity, was born 25 March 1787 in Dublin, the elder son (there were also several daughters) of Thomas Elrington (qv), provost of…...
Elrington, Thomas
Elrington, Thomas (1760–1835), provost of TCD and Church of Ireland bishop, was born 18 December 1760 near Dublin, only child of Richard Elrington and Catherine Elrington. Educated at TCD, he entered in 1775, becoming scholar in 1778.…...
Farrell, Monica
Farrell, Monica (1892–1982), protestant evangelist, was born in Dublin in 1892, one of the younger children in a family of seven. Her mother died when she was seven and she was brought up by an older sister who worked as a seamstress. She reacted to her bereavement and physical ill-…...
Fitzgerald, (Fanny Louisa) Geraldine Penrose-
Fitzgerald, (Fanny Louisa) Geraldine Penrose- (1846–1939), novelist and catholic convert, was born 27 January 1846, youngest daughter of Robert Uniacke Penrose-Fitzgerald and his wife Frances Matilda (née Austen); she had at least three brothers and one sister. The Penrose-…...
Fitzsimon, Henry
Fitzsimon, Henry (1566–1643), Jesuit priest and controversialist, was born on 31 May 1566 at Swords, Co. Dublin, son of Nicholas Fitzsimon, merchant, and alderman of the city of Dublin, and Anna Fitzsimon (née Sedgrave), one of the Sedgrave family of Killeglan and Cabra, Co.…...
Foley, Daniel (Ó Foghludha, Domhnall)
Foley, Daniel (Ó Foghludha, Domhnall) (1815–74), anglican minister and Irish-language scholar, grew up in a poor Irish-speaking family in Tralee, Co. Kerry. He worked for a time in the shop of Patrick Grey in Tralee. Influenced by a local clergyman, he left the Roman Catholic Church and…...