Conway, Anne
(1631–79), Viscountess Conway , woman of learning, was born in London, youngest child of Heneage Finch (1580–1631) and his second wife, Elizabeth Cradock (d. 1655). Elizabeth, from Staffordshire, brought both sturdy independence and wealth into her second marriage,…...
Pike, Mary
(1776–1832), quaker heiress, was the only surviving daughter of Samuel Pike and his wife Catherine Hutchinson (d. 1813), a son and daughter both having died in infancy. Samuel (d. 1796) was a partner with his older brother Ebenezer in the family bank in Cork city,…...
Pim, James
(1796–1856), banker, stockbroker, and railway entrepreneur, was born 7 May 1796 in Dublin, son of James Pim (1767–1848) of Mountmellick, Queen's Co. (Laois), and Dublin, and his wife Anne (1768–1847), daughter of Benjamin Greenwood of Portarlington, Queen's Co. The Pims…...