King, Robert
King, Robert (1754–99), 2nd earl of Kingston , politician, was the first, and only surviving, son of Edward King (1726–97), 1st earl of Kingston, and his wife, Jane King, illegitimate daughter of Thomas Caulfeild; during his father's lifetime he was styled Viscount Kingsborough.…...
Knox, Thomas
Knox, Thomas (c.1641–1728), merchant, landowner, and privy councillor, was eldest among three sons and two daughters of Thomas Knox (d. 1685), merchant and burgess of Glasgow, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Spang, a burgess of Glasgow of Danish origin. He…...
Knox, Thomas
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Knox, Thomas
Knox, Thomas (1754–1840), 1st earl of Ranfurly , 2nd Viscount Northland and MP, was born 5 August 1754, eldest among seven sons of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland of Dungannon , Co. Tyrone, and his wife Anne (d. 1803), second daughter of John, 1st Lord Knapton, and Elizabeth,…...
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,…...
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.…...
Langrishe, Robert
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Langrishe, Sir Hercules
Langrishe, Sir Hercules (1731–1811), 1st baronet, politician, was the eldest surviving son of Robert Langrishe (c.1696–1770) of Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny, gentleman usher of the black rod, and his wife, Anne Langrishe (née Whitby). Educated at…...
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…...
La Touche, John David
La Touche, John David (1732–1810), banker and landowner, was born on 21 August 1732, a surviving son of David La Touche II (qv), banker, and Mary Anne La Touche (née Canaseele), of Dublin. John La Touche inherited £7,000 a year and…...
Lawless, Sir Nicholas
Lawless, Sir Nicholas (1733–99), woollen draper, banker, MP, and 1st Baron Cloncurry , was born 30 October 1733, eldest son of Robert Lawless (d. 1775), woollen draper, of 2 High St., the Liberties, Dublin, and his wife Mary, daughter of Dominick Hadsor and widow of Robert…...
Lawless, Valentine Browne
Lawless, Valentine Browne (1773–1853), 2nd Baron Cloncurry , radical, was born 19 August 1773 at Merrion Square, Dublin, the only surviving son of Nicholas Lawless (1733–99), woollen merchant, brewer, and banker, who became 1st Baron Cloncurry in 1789, and Margaret Lawless (née…...
Le Blond, Elizabeth (‘Lizzie’) Alice Frances (née Hawkins-Whitshed; other married names Burnaby, Main)
Le Blond, Elizabeth (‘Lizzie’) Alice Frances (née Hawkins-Whitshed; other married names Burnaby, Main) (1860–1934), mountaineer, author and photographer, was born 26 June 1860 in Dublin, the only child of Sir St Vincent Bentinck Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd (and last) baronet of Killincarrick…...
Leeson, Joseph
Leeson, Joseph (c.1701–1783), 1st earl of Milltown , landowner, patron of the arts, was one of six surviving children – and apparently the only surviving son – of Joseph Leeson (qv), brewer and property developer, and his wife…...
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…...
Logier, Johann Bernhard
Logier, Johann Bernhard (1777–1846), pedagogue, composer, arranger, inventor, concert promoter, and music publisher and seller, was born 9 February 1777 in Kassel, Germany, the son of Johann Jacob Logier (1736–84), an organist and violinist, and Christina Elizabeth Gotze (1742–87…...
Ludgate, Percy
Ludgate, Percy Edwin (1883–1922), pioneer in digital computing, was born 2 August 1883 at the house of his parents, Michael Ludgate and Mary (née McMahon), in Townsend Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, the youngest of at least eight children. His father taught shorthand, later joined by…...
MacCarthy, Callaghan
MacCarthy, Callaghan (d. 1676), 3rd earl of Clancarty , nobleman, was born in Ireland in the late 1630s, the son of Donough MacCarthy (qv) (1594–1665), 1st earl of Clancarty, of Macroom, Co. Cork, and Eleanor Butler, sister of…...
MacCarthy, Donogh
MacCarthy, Donogh (1668–1734), 4th earl of Clancarty , soldier and Jacobite, was born in Blarney, Co. Cork, only son of Callaghan MacCarthy (qv) (second son of Donough MacCarthy (…...
MacDonnell, Rose
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Massue de Ruvigny, Henri
Massue de Ruvigny, Henri (1648–1720), marquis de Ruvigny , earl of Galway , soldier and lord justice, was born 9 April 1648 in Paris, France, son of Henri Massue, 1st marquis de Ruvigny, and his wife Marie Tallemand. The elder Ruvigny in 1656 became the deputy-general for the…...
Mathew, Francis
Mathew, Francis (1738–1806), politician and 1st earl of Llandaff , was born September 1738 at Thomastown, Co. Tipperary, the only son and heir of Thomas Mathew (1710–77), MP for Co. Tipperary (1761–2) and landowner, and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Mathew of Dublin. Raised…...
Mathew, Francis James
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Maxwell, Somerset Henry
Maxwell, Somerset Henry (1849–1900), 10th Baron Farnham , unionist, was born 7 March 1849 in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, eldest son of Richard Thomas Maxwell (1815–74) and his wife Charlotte Anne (d. 1910), daughter of the Rev. Henry Preston Elrington. His uncle was Sir James…...
May, Sir (James) Edward
May, Sir (James) Edward (1751–1814), 2nd baronet, politician, was born in 1751 at Mayfield, Co. Waterford, second but eldest surviving son among six sons and two daughters of James May, knight of the shire, MP for Co. Waterford 1759–97, and 1st baronet, and Anne May (née Moore).…...