Haliday, Alexander Henry
Haliday, Alexander Henry (1727?–1802), physician and public figure in Belfast, was one of several sons of Samuel Haliday (qv), a presbyterian minister at Belfast. Intent on a career as a physician, Alexander Haliday…...
Hill, George
Hill, George (1810–1900), presbyterian minister and historian, was born 18 September 1810 in Moyarget, near Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, sixth of eleven children of William Hill, farmer of Moyarget, and his wife Marianne, daughter of the Rev. William Lynd, minister of Ramoan…...
Holmes, Finlay
Holmes, Finlay (1926–2008), presbyterian minister and historian, was born Robert Finlay Gregg Holmes in north Belfast on 19 July 1926, one of two sons of William Holmes and his wife Sophia Finlay (née Gregg). Both his parents were from the north Antrim district of Kilraughts. His mother…...
Houston, John
Houston, John (1802–45), surgeon and anatomist, was born in the north of Ireland, probably at Ballindrait, Co. Donegal, son of James Houston, presbyterian minister at Ballindrait, and his wife Jane, daughter of the Rev. James Taylor of Convoy, Co. Donegal, and sister of Joseph…...
Hyde, Harford Montgomery
Hyde, Harford Montgomery (1907–89), barrister, politician, and author, was born 14 August 1907 in Belfast, son of James Johnstone Hyde JP, linen merchant, and his wife, Isobel (née Montgomery). Hyde claimed distant kinship with Henry James. His…...
Irwin, Sir Samuel Thompson
Irwin, Sir Samuel Thompson (1877–1961), surgeon, rugby player, and politician, was born 3 July 1877 in Limavady, Co. Londonderry, son of John Irwin of Limavady. He was educated at Foyle College, Derry, and QCB, where he graduated…...
Jemison, Mary ('Deh-he-wä-mis')
Jemison, Mary ('Deh-he-wä-mis') (1743?–1833), American frontierswoman, was born aboard the ship William and Mary, when her parents, Thomas Jemison and his wife Jane (née Erwin), (both of protestant Scotch-Irish heritage) were emigrating to colonial Pennsylvania, departing from…...
Johnston (Johnston-Liik ), Edith Mary
Johnston (Johnston-Liik ), Edith Mary (1930–2008), historian and editor, was born 11 July 1930 in Belfast, eldest of three daughters of John Worthington Johnston (1904–52), athlete, presbyterian minister and army chaplain, and his wife Mary Isobel Giraud (née McFadden); a son died at…...
Kemmy, James Joseph Oliver Mary (‘Jim’)
Kemmy, James Joseph Oliver Mary (‘Jim’) (1936–97), trade unionist, Labour politician, and local historian, was born 14 September 1936 in O'Curry St., Limerick, eldest of three sons and two daughters of Michael Kemmy and Elizabeth Kemmy (née Pilkington). His mother came from farming…...
Kidd, George Hugh
Kidd, George Hugh (1824–95), surgeon, was born 12 June 1824 in Armagh, son of Hugh Kidd and Eliza Kidd (née M'Kinstry). He was educated at schools in Monaghan and Newry, and at the medical schools of TCD and…...
Killen, William Dool
Killen, William Dool (1806–1902), presbyterian church historian, was born 5 April 1806 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, elder son of John Killen, merchant, and Martha Killen (née Dool). Through his paternal grandmother, Blanche Brice, he could claim descent from…...
Lamont, Hubert Gibson
Lamont, Hubert Gibson (1901–85), veterinary surgeon and researcher, was born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, younger son among two sons and two daughters of William S. Lamont (d. 1947), a well known and popular Cookstown vet, and his wife Sara Maude (née Gibson). He was a boarder at…...
Latimer, William Thomas
Latimer, William Thomas (1842–1919), presbyterian minister and historian, was the only child of John Latimer (d. 1843), presbyterian minister of First Ballynahatty, near Omagh, Co. Tyrone, and Eliza Latimer (née Dudgeon). His father died while William was still a baby. Latimer's…...
Leahy, Patrick Joseph
Leahy, Patrick Joseph (1917–98), general practitioner and medical campaigner, was born 13 March 1917 at the Mall, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the son of William Leahy, a self-made man and architect cum engineer, and Margaret Leahy (née Doyle). One of eight children, he was born into a…...
Macafee, Charles Horner Greer
Macafee, Charles Horner Greer (1898–1978), physician, was born on 23 July 1898 at the Manse, Dergmoney, Omagh, the only son and elder child of the Reverend Andrew Macafee, presbyterian minister, and his wife Annie Horner Macafee (née Crowe), MBE (Member of the Order of the British…...
Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart
Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1870–1950), archaeologist, was born 8 July 1870 at Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin, eldest among two sons and two daughters of Alexander Macalister, anatomist and Egyptologist, of Dublin, and Elizabeth Macalister (née Stewart) of Perth, Scotland.…...
MacArthur, Sir William Porter
MacArthur, Sir William Porter (1884–1964), army medical officer, Irish-language scholar, and historian, was born 11 March 1884 at Belmont, east Belfast, Co. Down, the only son of John Porter MacArthur (d. 1930), tea merchant, and his wife Margaret Rainey (d. 1936), daughter of William…...
MacBride, David
MacBride, David (1726–78), doctor and scientist, was born 26 April 1726 in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, son of Robert MacBride (1687–1759), presbyterian minister at Ballymoney, and his wife, a Miss Boyd from Killaghy, Co. Down, whose father may have been David Boyd. Robert McBride was…...
Mackenzie, John
Mackenzie, John (1649?–1696?), presbyterian minister and historian, was born in 1647 or 1649 in the north of Ireland, possibly in Co. Down, though the family was also associated with a farm at Lowcross, near Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. He was educated at Edinburgh university, and…...
Magee, Reginald Arthur Edward
Magee, Reginald Arthur Edward (1914–89), politician and surgeon, was born 18 August 1914 at Belfast, youngest son of James Magee, railway clerk, and his wife, Ellen (maiden name unknown), schoolteacher. Having won a senior prizeman in science at Campbell College, Belfast, he…...
Marshall, Robert Lyons
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McHenry, James
McHenry, James (1785–1845), poet, novelist, and doctor, was born 20 December 1785 in Larne, Co. Antrim, son of George McHenry, cloth merchant, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sam Smiley, all from Larne. As a child, he was privately educated by the Rev. J. Nicholson, who taught him…...
McIlroy, Dame Anne Louise
McIlroy, Dame Anne Louise (1877–1968), professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, was born at Lavin House, Loughguile, Co. Antrim, eldest of four daughters of James McIlroy, doctor and JP, and Anna McIlroy (née Hamilton). She was educated in…...
McKee, Maud
McKee, Maud (1954–2014), medical doctor and psychotherapist, was born Jacqueline Maud McKee on 17 April 1954 in Portballintrae, Co. Antrim, the third of four children (three daughters and one son) of John McKee, vice principal of Bushmills Grammar School, and his wife Mary (née…...
McSkimin, Samuel (‘Sam’)
McSkimin, Samuel (‘Sam’) (1775–1843), local historian and collector, was born near Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, on a site later occupied by the Ollardale hotel, probably the only child of Samuel McSkimin (1754–1808) and his wife Nancy (1740–1820). His father was a unitarian…...