Solomons, Bethel Albert Herbert (1885–1965), gynaecologist and rugby player, was born 27 February 1885 at 32 Waterloo Road, Dublin, second son and third child of Maurice Elias Solomons (d. 1922), optician and honorary consul for the Austro–Hungarian empire in Ireland, and Rosa Jane…...
Solomons, Michael Joseph Maurice (1919–2007), physician and family planning advocate, was born
3 May 1919 in Dublin, the second child among two sons and one
daughter of Bethel Solomons (qv), a prominent
obstetrician and…...
Thompson, Sir William John (1861–1929), registrar-general of Ireland, was born at Tattyreagh, Co. Fermanagh, the son of William Thompson, a farmer of Tattyreagh. He was educated at TCD and the…...
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton (1903–95), scientist, educator, and Nobel prize laureate, was born 6 October 1903 in Abbeyside, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, elder of two children of the Rev. John Arthur Walton and Anna Elizabeth Walton (née Sinton). His father, a methodist minister, was born…...
Whitla, Sir William
(1851–1933), physician, was born 15 September 1851 at The Diamond, Monaghan town, fourth son of Robert Whitla, a presbyterian pawnbroker and draper, and his wife Anne (née Williams). Whitla's parents had five sons and seven daughters. In 1928 Whitla presented a…...